Yangcheng Evening News Reporter Liu Yi reported: The 2022 Golden Globe Awards award ceremony was held in Paris, France on October 18, and the French center of Real Madrid was elected without any suspense. Benzema became the second oldest winner in the history of the Golden Globes at 34 years and 10 months, second only to the first Golden Globe winner in 1956 and England star Matthews (41 years and 10 months).
presented Benzema with his mentor, former Real Madrid coach Zidane . Together, they helped Real Madrid achieve three consecutive championships in Champions League from 2016 to 2018. After Zidane in 1998, Benzema became another French player to win the Golden Ball Award.
Benzema said in his acceptance speech: "The Golden Globes is a dream I have been growing up. Through years of hard work, I can finally realize my dream. I am motivated and I have worked with Zidane, a role model in my life." Benzema also said: "I want to thank my teammates, Real Madrid, and our amazing club chairman ( Florentino ). He is like my family. He gave me the opportunity to join Real Madrid. He has been with me, has always given me confidence and respect me. Thanks to Lyon Youth Training Camp and Lyon Club Chairman Olas, and I also want to thank Lyon Youth Training Camp and Lyon Club Chairman Olas. Thank my family. This trophy is personal and collective. "
2022 Golden Ball Awards selection mainly refers to the performance of the players from August 2021 to July 2022. Benzema scored 50 goals in the official matches during this period and had 16 assists, including 44 goals and 15 assists for Real Madrid in 46 games, and 6 goals and 1 assist for the French team 10 appearances. He won four championship trophys, including Champions League, La Liga , Spanish Super Cup , and European National League . Benzema won the La Liga Golden Boot Award for (32 appearances and 27 goals) and the Champions League Golden Boot Award for (12 appearances and 15 goals), respectively, bringing him the first Golden Ball Award in his career.
in the 2022 Golden Globe Awards selection, Mane and De Bruyne ranked second and third, and the fourth to tenth ranked Lewandowski , Salah , Mbappe , Courtois , Junior, Modric , Haaland . Last season, the winner of the Premier League Golden Boot Awards, Son Heung-min, ranked 11th, and the Korean striker of Tottenham became the "Light of Asia", creating the highest ranking of Asian players in the Golden Globe Awards.
C Ronaldo ranked 20th among the 30 Golden Globe candidates this year, and Messi missed the Golden Globe candidates for the first time in 16 years. Both Messi and Ronaldo failed to enter the top three in the Golden Ball Awards. The last time was in 2006, when Ronaldo ranked 14th and Messi ranked 20th.
Real Madrid became the biggest winner of this award ceremony, and goalkeeper Courtois won the 2022 Yasin Award , which symbolizes the best goalkeeper. Real Madrid coach Ancelotti congratulated the two loving players: "It is an honor to be able to coach the world's best goalkeeper and the Golden Ball Award winner. Congratulations to my friends Courtois and Benzema!"
From a genius boy to a late bloomer
Benzema was born on December 19, 1987 in Lyon, France. Like the French predecessor Zidane, his parents are also descendants of Algerian . Benzema played for a goalkeeper briefly in his childhood, but later changed to play as a forward.
In 2004, Benzema helped the French national youth team win the U17 European Youth Football Championship. He and his three teammates, Nasri , Ben Alpha , and Mene were called France's "87 Four Little Swans". The other three "little swans" in France have long been lost, but Benzema has reached the peak in his late career and has become the second-year winner in the history of the Golden Globes.
Benzema debuted in Lyon youth training system, and has only played for two clubs, Lyon and Real Madrid. As early as the 2007-2008 season, Benzema, who was only 20 years old, helped Lyon win the Ligue 1 championship. The current Ligue 1 overlord Paris Saint-Germain ranked 16th in the league that season. Benzema won the Ligue 1 Golden Boot Award and Player of the Year awards at that time.
In the summer of 2009, Benzema joined Real Madrid, and he also joined the 2008 Golden Globe winner Cristiano Ronaldo and 2007 Golden Globe winner Kaka. The pressure to play football next to two Golden Globe winners is conceivable. Kaka was troubled by injuries during his time at Real Madrid and did not perform to his best. Ronaldo shone during Real Madrid. Benzema played the role of green leaves most of the time and was nicknamed "The scapegoat". Even if Benzema, Bale , and Ronaldo later formed Real Madrid's famous "BBC combination", the most talked about by fans is often the "two million flying together" between Ronaldo and Bale, and then they think of Benzema.
is in Real Madrid's history scorer list, with Ronaldo ranked first and Benzema ranked second. Together they created another glorious era for Real Madrid. It was not until Ronaldo transferred to Real Madrid in the summer of 2018 that Benzema gradually became the star of Real Madrid. Nowadays, Benzema, along with Brazilian "Temini" Junior and Rodrigo (sometimes Uruguay international Valverde ) form Real Madrid's new trident combination. Rodrigo and Kaka are both Brazilian stars. Rodrigo was born in 2001, and Benzema's offensive partner Kaka was born in 1982.
This year marks Benzema's 11th Golden Globes list. He ranked fourth in 2021 and his third highest ranking is 16th in 2014. Benzema and Kaka were teammates who joined Real Madrid in the same year, but the years they won the Golden Ball Award were 15 years apart. Kaka sent his blessings to Benzema: "Congratulations to my friends for winning this rightful honor. Welcome to join the Golden Globes team."
All-media reporter of Yangcheng Evening News Liu Yi
He defeated time and prejudice with patience
French star Benzema who played for Real Madrid and officially won the 2022 Golden Globes. Judging from the voting data, this result is the most suspenseless time in the Golden Globes selection in recent years, but for more people, it may also be the most unexpected time.
's identity as the "Golden Globe Winner" is too different from people's inherent impression of Benzema.
In many people's impression, Benzema is still the "licorice" character who is willing to be a supporting role. Before a game in December 2015, his teammates C Ronaldo, Kroos , Ramos , and J Ronaldo lined up at Bernabeu Stadium , showing the Golden Globe Awards and various awards they just won. Behind them, Benzema applauded from afar. People joked with the lyrics from the song " Exaggeration " by Eason Chan, "That year, the alma mater dance party, standing like a minion."
That year was the lowest point in Benzema's career. He was involved in the "video gate" incident. His national teammate Valbuena was extorted. Benzema foolishly persuaded Valbuena to "break money and eliminate disasters" for his "friends". As a result, he was prosecuted as an accomplice. Not only was he involved in a few years of official disputes, but he was expelled from the national team and missed the opportunity to win the second place in the 2016 European Cup and the 2018 World Cup championship with the team. It was not until 2021 that Benzema was able to return to France.
has been in Real Madrid for 13 years, and most of the time, Benzema has been a supporting role. He was a center substitute in 2009, and he was a "drawing substitute" for Higuain ; during the coaching period of Mourinho in , he got more opportunities to play, but more of the task of covering the running; although the combination of Ronaldo, Bale and Benzema has achieved outstanding results, Benzema has been regarded as a "wingman" or even a "drag bottle", even though his tactical contribution is not small. The meme of
"It's all Benzema's fault" also became popular during this period. Although people may not really blame Benzema when the team performs poorly, this kind of ridicule is still an invisible contempt.
However, Benzema didn't care. When Ronaldo and Bale were at Real Madrid, Benzema was very low-key and willing to assume the responsibility of assisting; and when the two left the team one after another, although Benzema continued to keep a low profile, he was able to regain the strongest way to score when he debuted. During this Golden Ball selection cycle, he scored 44 goals and 15 assists in Real Madrid's 46 games, winning the Champions League, La Liga, Spanish Super Cup, as well as the La Liga Golden Boot and the Champions League Golden Boot.
Benzema defeated time and prejudice with his humility, patience and responsibility.
34 years and 10 months old is the second oldest winner in Golden Globes history, second only to Matthews, the first Golden Globe winner 66 years ago. Living in the era of "double transfer" between Messi and Ronaldo, he never regards personal honor as his main goal, but ultimately he is unwilling to get into the willows.
In the football era in which Benzema lived, the "center" was not a popular profession, but was more instrumentalized or even marginalized. What is rare is that while Benzema has worked hard and undertaken almost all the jobs in the midfield and frontcourt, he has not abandoned the talent and ability to score goals in the center. He is a right-footed player, but he has excellent ability to draw left and right. Just last Sunday's national derby , he just scored a wonderful goal with his left foot.
He is the first official center to win the Golden Globes in 18 years, and the previous one can be traced back to Shevchenko in 2004. Compared with Lewandowski, who is also a center, who is Lewandowski (the Golden Ball Award was cancelled last year, otherwise Lewandowski would be elected), Benzema needs to serve the team more than enjoy the team's "feeding cake".
34-year-old Benzema has only played for two clubs in his career so far. After leaving Lyon, he stayed at Real Madrid for 13 years. Benzema's silent cultivation finally won the favor of the goddess of luck.
In Real Madrid, he became the most senior main force and was also relaxed in tactical terms. Real Madrid, as a top club, has continuously supplemented his outstanding teammates; "post-90s" and "post-95s" such as Neymar and and Mbappe, each have their own problems, which has reduced the speed of football iteration and gave him and Lewandowski the chance to realize his dreams in personal awards; in addition, the World Cup was held for the first time in November rather than in summer, which also changed the selection cycle of the Golden Globes from year to season for the first time, and Benzema's performance in the club is therefore overwhelmingly persuasive.
Benzema silently took the blame after the "black blame" in his career. This world-famous "burden man" has finally come to the golden Golden Globes podium. Just as former Real Madrid coach Mourinho commented: "He is a great person, obeying the team, not obsessed with himself, not obsessed with the Golden Ball Awards, not obsessed with whoever scores more goals. He is just a member of the team and has done a lot of things. The Golden Ball Awards are natural."
Yangcheng Evening News All-Media Reporter Zhao Liangchen
Editor: Wu Jiahong
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