Our series “Benzema, multiple lives of a Ballon d’Or”
Monday evening, October 17, at the Théâtre du Châtelet, Karim Benzema was elected Ballon d’Or, the first for France since Zinédine Zidane in 1998. The Real Madrid striker, best player in the world for the 2021-22 season , reached at 34 the crowning achievement of a career that was anything but linear. From prodigy to the most complete striker in the world, passing through the rejection of part of the country, here is a four-part portrait of the new Ballon d’Or:
- A man so secret
- A striker so complete
- Such a keen athlete
- A long controversial star
On September 7, 2012, in Helsinki, Karim Benzema performed a programmatic world-class action. Ten years before his Golden Ball, he informed which player he was or rather could be in the 20th minute of a Finland-France in the 2014 World Cup qualifiers.
