At the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris, Real Madrid striker Karim Benzema became the fifth French player to lift the prestigious Ballon d’Or after Raymond Kopa (1958), Michel Platini (1983, 1984, 1985), Jean-Pierre Papin (1991) and Zinedine Zidane (1998). This individual distinction comes to reward the 34-year-old striker, author of a superb season on the collective level with the Merengues, champions of Spain in title in winners of the Champions League, and large personal statistics (44 goals and 15 assists decisive TCC).
If his start to the season is a little more complicated (6 goals and 1 assist d. in 12 matches in all competitions), the international with 97 caps (37 achievements) took advantage of the end of the first part of the season to present his soundtrack to the public of OL, his training club, and give an interview to Telefoot. At the microphone of the broadcast TF1the native of Bron admits not having received a congratulatory message from his former Real Madrid teammate and five-time Golden Ball winner Cristiano Ronaldo: “Nope. I haven’t had it yet. Calm.” As a reminder, the two men played 342 matches together between 2009 and 2018, for 240 matches won, 4 Cups with big ears and two Spanish Championships in the white jersey.
