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“It’s the people’s golden ball.” Now as legendary as his victory, this sentence says a lot about the feeling of revenge that has been driving for many years. Karim Benzema was built on adversity, and in particular had to face many controversies of all kinds and a long sideline in selection. By signing his victory in this way, he wanted to give an unprecedented content to the evening. As if to better criticize his banishment with the Blues for five years but also to mark the singularity of his success with Cristiano Ronaldo and Messi, the previous winners, superchampions doped with individual statistics. He who has only rarely been unanimous finally wins the respect of all, he goes down in history by becoming the 5th Frenchman to win this trophy
In this video, journalist Grégory Schneider demonstrates why, more than a consecration for Karim Benzema, it is also the advent of the collective over the individual. He analyzes the striker’s game and explains that between efficiency and altruism, he is probably the only player in the world to practice such football. It is thus another vision of this sport which has imposed itself. From there to see a paradigm shift in the impenetrable and flourishing world of football, there is only one step… that we do not see ourselves crossing for the moment.
