Madrid renews Benzema for the ‘Ballon d’Or Clause’

Karim Benzema has renewed his contract with Real Madrid for one season. The club has applied an unwritten rule by which the winner of the Ballon d’Or automatically extends his link with the club. Benzema, who will turn 36 in December, has reached a tacit agreement with the president, Florentino Pérezwho was the one who signed him in 2009. This has been confirmed to AS by highly reliable club sources.

Benzema is aware, on the other hand, that the next one will be his last season at Madrid. The French, who anyway He will continue to be linked to the club once his sports career endsis the first to know and argues that the team must be reinforced in attack. The arrival of the Brazilian Endrick, already signed by Real Madrid, will not be effective until 2024 and the club does not lose sight of other objectives for the attack either.

The story of Benzema in Madrid, which It will be extended for another year, until June 2024, it arrives due to the so-called ‘Ballon d’Or clause’, a trophy that the Frenchman lifted at the age of 34 after an amazing career at Real Madrid. The Frenchman received recognition from ‘France Football’ after leading Real Madrid in winning the Fourteenth European Cup, the 35th League and the 12th Spanish Super Cup, competitions in which he was also the top scorer with 15, 27 and 2 points respectively. His contribution in winning the last Champions League was prodigious. He was the captain of the comebacks, with three goals against PSG in the round of 16, four against Chelsea in the quarterfinals and three against City in the semifinals. Insuperable.

In his career in the League, one of the rivals that Benzema has suffered the most has been Barcelona. In the last match, in the Copa del Rey match, he scored a hat-trick and beat Raúl González and placed himself in the top-ten of Real Madrid scorers against Barça. In that last Clásico he scored his goals number 14, 15 and 16. These goals place him in the seventh historical place of great Culé antagonists behind Gorostiza (29), Campanal (20), Cristiano Ronaldo (20), Zarra (20) , Di Stéfano (19) and Hugo Sánchez (19). Behind him he leaves other myths besides Raúl such as Puskas and Gento.