Benzema wins Ballon d’Or: Bron’s ‘Coco’ is already king of the world

A record that made it, 34 years oldis the winner of the Ballon d’Or, an award that goes to Spaniard Alexia Putellas for the second consecutive year in only the women’s category. Last season’s League and Champions League winners, Real Madrid, saw their dominance recognized at a gala that crowned their four players in the league. top 10: Modric, Vinicius, Courtois (recognized as the best goalkeeper with the Lev Yashin award) and Benzema himself.

For the French, it all really started in 13 years. Kerim’s phone rang and the other one heard the voice of one of his brothers: “You have to come home quickly.” But Benzema, who was with her friends, didn’t do much homework: “I hang out with the boys. I don’t have time now, I’ll go later.” Then the striker heard something he would never have thought of: “You must come now! The Florentine is here. At home, in the living room. Kerim took his car and drove home quickly. while thinking: “Zizou, Ronaldo, the man who signed the Galacticos… waiting for me in my living room”. He didn’t quite believe it, but when he opened the door of his house, he saw Florentino. They hardly spoke, shook hands, and the rest is history.

Nureyev of the scorers

Now Karim got the Ballon d’Or and so The dazzling mutation of a soccer unicorn that adds to its innate grace the killer instinct of a local hitman. This made him the Nureyev of the strikers. Introverted to the irritating limits in his first phase, when Mourinho contemptuously likened him to a cat when he needed a hunting dog, the Frenchman is today a Bengal tiger. But by adding that goal scorer to his natural class, he has not only transformed himself in football, but matured to become Real Madrid’s most incredible reference and captain of all time. The one who won the most unexpected Champions League in history and has amassed five European Cups in the last nine editions.

Karim has to go upstairs to get the Ballon d’Or with his bandaged hand. The most obvious sign of his transformation. On January 13, 2019, in the match against Betis, the French player retired with a hand injury after a conflict with Bartra. Tests revealed a tear and surgery was recommended, but The striker chose to avoid the operation and bulky bandage his hand so as not to miss the matches and not leave the team orphaned. your references in the attack. Cristiano had left and Solari had no other name in front of him. In the end, Benzema had surgery on his finger at the end of the season, but the result was not what he expected and the Frenchman saved his bulky bandage during the pandemic. They advised him to have another surgery, but that would mean missing two months of the season, and Karim again prioritized helping the team as his bandage became an icon of Real Madrid like Alaba’s chair or Chendo’s knee brace.

This Benzema has little to do with the young man from Lyon. He left behind his dangerous companies, those scumbags full of cars, his flirtations with Rihanna… Today Karim is focused on enjoying his children Ibrahim and Melà. He changed his life habits as a Stakhanovist. He sculpts his body by working out in the gym and on a varied diet with the help of chef Alberto Mastromatteo. Karim is fed a personalized diet mixed with microalgae, pasta or tuna tartare, which has allowed her to lose nearly ten pounds.

Today he replaces Zinedine Zidane, the man who believed in him the most as a football player, in the list of French winners of the prestigious Ballon d’Or, awarded by France Football. Happiness reigns in the living room of the now-defunct Benzema home, which Florentino visited 13 years ago in the troubled Bron district on the outskirts of Lyon. Gressy, Sabri, Nafissa, Faryd, Lydia, Sofia, Celia and Leticia and Karim will see their seven siblings little ‘Coco’ fulfill a dream.. No one can say that Karim didn’t warn him. Tired of the jokes made by Carew, Maoluda and Wiltford, the young man warned them the day he went to practice with the Olympique de Lyon team for the first time: “I was your ball boy, but now I’m here to compete with you and win the number 10 jersey”. Today that boy is the most sophisticated striker in the world. The player has been for a long time.