Beaten by Lionel Messi for the trophy for the best player of the year 2022, awarded Monday by FIFA, Karim Benzema sent a strong message in his own way.
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The Ballon d’Or 2022 did not achieve the double. Last Monday, Karim Benzema was not named best player of the year during The Best ceremony organized by FIFA in Paris. Rather than the French striker from Real Madrid, third in the final standings, the international body chose Lionel Messi, who became world champion 2022 with Argentina. The least we can say is that this “failure” does not pass for the former Lyonnais, for whom his club teammate David Alaba did not vote.
Solidarity with Vinicius
On social networks, the 35-year-old center-forward has multiplied the rants in order to denounce the absence of his coronation. In a message posted on his account TwitterKarim Benzema displayed himself alongside a sports car with the following words: “I got there alone…” As a way for the native of the Rhone city to explain that he does not need anyone to succeed. The bitterness of “KB9” reached its climax on instagram. The man with 97 caps and 37 goals with the Blues posted a story on which we see him alongside Vinicius Junior.
I got there alone… pic.twitter.com/93yzxcQtq4
— Karim Benzema (@Benzema) February 28, 2023
Karim Benzema thus wanted to deplore the fact that the Brazilian striker, however author of an exceptional year and winner with him of La Liga, the Champions League and the Club World Cup, does not appear in the team. -type of the best players. Finally, the one who was absent from the 2022 World Cup in Qatar due to injury recalled his record won with the White House and his statistics and personal distinctions.
Karim Benzema’s stories on Instagram after his third place at The Best
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— Football.fr (@football_fr) March 1, 2023
Since the start of the 2022-2023 season, Madrid’s number 9 has scored 18 goals in 25 games in all competitions, including 11 goals in 14 La Liga games. With Real Madrid, Karim Benzema has scored 341 goals in 630 games since arriving at Santiago-Bernabeu in the summer of 2009.
