French international Karim Benzema, a Real Madrid member, won the Ballon d’Or on Monday, October 17, 2022.
He is a French international footballer playing as a center forward at Real Madrid. Native of Lyon (France), Karim Benzema, author of an exceptional 2021-2022 season, won the Ballon d’Or on October 17. He thus won the most beautiful trophy on the football planet for this 66th edition.
The Real Madrid striker then succeeds Zinedine Zidane as the last Frenchman to win the main individual award in the world of football. It was in 1998.
Karim Benzema has piled up goals in competitions and been decisive in big moments. Indeed, Benzema scored 44 goals during the season with Real Madrid: 27 in La Liga, where he was the top scorer, 15 in the Champions League and two in the Spanish Super Cup.
He scored six more with France, where he was also the star of the show. In terms of goals, only Robert Lewandowski was able to score more. It must be said that the Polish striker has scored 50 goals in 46 games with Bayern Munich and six in seven games with his national team.
France international Karim Benzema has undoubtedly been the most important man for Madrid in their Champions League winning season.
“The Ballon d’Or is in the back of my head, of course: in the club, I can’t do better,” he told Canal + after lifting his fifth Champions League.
Top scorer, best player and most beautiful goal of the season in the Champions League, not to mention the title of UEFA player of the year, for the first time in his career, Karim Benzema has certainly made an impression on football lovers .
