The Ballon D’Or ceremony is recently taking off in Paris on Monday where the France striker Karim Benzema bags the award.
It is a reward for Real Madrid which came off with the Champions League and La Liga the previous season. Ballon d’Or is the most prestigious award for an individual in the game of football.
Karim is the first person from France who bags this award for his performance in the game recently after Zinedine Zidane gets in 1998 who scores 44 goals in 46 games of football. He also has several championships to his name.
Real Madrid’s Karim Benzema Bags Ballon d’Or
The previous season of the UEFA Nations League with France takes off where Benzema is a winner. Sending Bayern Munich and Senegal star Sadio Mane back to position two after the game.
The Ballon d’Or posts on their official social media handle about the winner on Twitter. The post says, “KARIM BENZEMA IS THE 2022 BALLON D’OR! @Benzema @realmadrid #ballondor”
Position three is with Kevin De Bruyne from Manchester City and Belgium. Whereas position four is with Robert Lewandowski from Barcelona and Poland Star
Ballon d’Or is a French football award which is given by the France Football magazine. The winning of the award marks a great victory in their career for Benzema.
The player was out of the team for four and a half years. Owing to his involvement in the blackmail scandal over a sex tape in which his teammate Mathieu Valbuena is also involved.
The player comes back to the team the previous year for the European Championship. And he will be playing the World Cup in Qatar with France next month.
After the World Cup Final on December 18, the player Benzema will be turning 35 December 19. He is one of the oldest players to win the Ballon D’or after the very first winner of the award Stanley Matthews in 1956.