France’s Karim Benzema has been rewarded for his efforts and contribution to Spanish team Real Madrid winning the domestic league and European Champions League doubles, receiving the UEFA European Football Association’s Player of the Year Award.
Choosing the 34-year-old Frenchman as the best player on the old continent, succeeding Italy’s Jorginho, who won it last year after leading his country to the European Cup title and his Chelsea team to the Champions League title, for promotion his chances of winning the most important award, the Ballon d’Or for the best player in the world, which will be presented to Before by the French magazine France Football on 17 October.
Having led Real Madrid to the Champions League title for the fourteenth time in their history by defeating Liverpool in the final, Benzema saw that during the season he did everything in his power to become the most prominent candidate for the Ballon d’Or award. .
He didn’t score in the final at the Stade de France after the winning goal was signed by young Brazilian Vinicius Junior, but the Frenchman was the top scorer in the continental championship last season with 15 goals, including 10 in the playoffs.
He told Canal Plus after the match when asked if he was considering winning the Ballon d’Or: “Of course… Now I will join the national team, but I don’t think I can do better at club level. I’ll see what happens. Either way, I’m proud of what you’ve achieved.”
The French striker finished last season with 44 goals for Real Madrid in all competitions, including 27 in the league, helping the team to the Spanish title.
He scored a hat-trick against Paris Saint-Germain and Chelsea in the quarter-finals and quarter-finals respectively, as well as a return goal against the London club and three goals in two matches against another English team, Manchester City. in the semi-finals.
“There is no luck, you can get lucky once, but not every time,” he said, referring to the beautiful “remontade” that Real Madrid achieved several times on the way to the final and became the first team to win the title despite losing . three games in the playoffs. We worked hard, each time we returned and did not give up.
Benzema has five Champions League titles and has confirmed that his end of the season as the tournament’s top scorer is “exceptional, but the most important thing is to win a fifth Champions League title.”
