En the summer of 2014, Luis Suarezwho would end up at Barcelona weeks later, was put within range of the Real Madrid. The idea excited Carlo Ancelotti, who saw in the Uruguayan an extraordinary reinforcement for the team that had just become European champion. until Jose Angel Sanchez He told him that to face this operation Karim Benzema had to be sold. The answer of Carletto it was a resounding “no”, without possible debate. His 9 was untouchable and it was impossible to find a better ally for Cristiano. There the white interest in Luis Suárez ended.
Eight years have passed since then. Today Benzema, like then, is European champion. And the best player in the world. The new captain of Real Madrid faces what will be his fourteenth season in the white house, in which he debuted with number 11 on his back. He starts at the height of an adventure in which there were very different stages to those Karim is now experiencing, but in each of those campaigns he has been the untouchable battering ram of all the technicians who have passed through Madrid. He had the hardest time for him when that dog and cat thing Mourinhowho wanted to squeeze him with the arrival of Adebayor in the middle of the season. All of this is far away today.
Since the summer of 2009, Karim he has built an impressive history with the Real Madrid shirt and the 9 on his back. On that road there are five European Cupsthe same ones that the great icon of white history and that number won: Alfredo di Stéfano. And in those 14 years at the Bernabéu, Benzema He has seen how the position of center forward has rotated and rotated among the greats of Europe while in Madrid he has turned it into private property.
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Lewandowski, the closest
Waiting for how the future of a Lewandowski who has made it clear that he wants to leave Munich, Bayern is the great in Europe that has had the most stability in the position of center forward since Benzema arrived in Madrid. As of the summer of 2014, the Bavarian 9 has spoken in Polish, with an extraordinary performance: 344 goals in 375 games. The scorer of warsaw came from the Borussia Dortmund to occupy a position that had previously been Mario Gomez and of Mandzukiz.
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On the other side is the Atletico Madrid. While Benzema has built his history as a white, on the other side of football in the Spanish capital, the most intense parade of center forwards among the aspiring European champions has been experienced. When Madrid introduced Benzema, Calderón’s number 9 was Diego Forlán, a hero that season with the two goals against Fulham in the Europa League final. Then came Falcao, Diego Costa with Villa by his side, Mandzukic, Torres returned, Gameiro, Correa played as a battering ram, Morata, Luis Suárez, Cunha…
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Morata’s dances
The forward of the Spanish team understood that it was not possible to put at risk the ownership of Benzema in Madrid. She went to Juve, came back and put land in the middle again. Morata It has been one of the 9 that has changed the most teams in the Era Karim: Madrid, Juventus, Chelsea, Atlético de Madrid, Juve again and now with his future in the air at the Metropolitan.
In this constant change also appears the figure of Ibrahimovic. At 40 years old he has once again made Milan champion. He makes 14, when he arrives Benzema to Madrid, the Swede was Barcelona’s star signing. From there he went to Milan, then to PSG, to Manchester United, he went to Los Angeles and when everything seemed closed for him, he has returned to the front line of fire dressed in Red-black.
