2023-06-04 12:42:48
”
data-script=”
>
The Madrid club formalized the departure of the Ballon d’Or 2022 this Sunday. If the future of the French striker should be in Saudi Arabia, his mark in the history of the biggest club in the world will remain indelible.
The great champions also recognize themselves in this, no one wants the story to end. In the hope of forever admiring their exploits, of continuing to be privileged in the passing of time. Karim Benzema is of this caliber. Men who will have marked their time. He hasn’t retired, but it’s just like. This Sunday, Real Madrid has indeed published a press release formalizing the departure of the Ballon d’Or 2022.
After fourteen years of good and loyal service, 25 trophies, including 5 Champions Leagues, the French international bows out in the biggest club on the football planet. Grandiose and unimaginable for the kid from Bron. At 35, he will continue to rage on the pitch, no doubt in Saudi Arabia for the last and biggest contract of his footballing life, but it is incomparable with the mark he will leave on the European scene.
Karim Benzema with Real Madrid CARL RECINE / REUTERS
A legendary track record, stunning stats and a fabulous in-game footprint
If his story with the France team is going to be a fiasco – with responsibilities shared between him and Didier Deschamps, Karim Benzema leaves Madrid as a legend. For full respect. And indelible memories. If statistics are not everything, they also sometimes have the merit of setting the scene for a man who arrived as a youngster from Olympique Lyonnais in the summer of 2009 to leave as a lord fourteen years later from the Madrid city. 647 matches, 353 goals, 149 assists, 5 C1, 4 Liga, 5 Club World Cups, 4 European Super Cups, 2 Spanish Cups, and a Ballon d’Or… So many figures for an extraordinary record .
Read also353 goals, 25 titles, 1 Ballon d’Or…The 10 crazy numbers of Karim Benzema’s career at Real Madrid
But more than the stats, Karim Benzema will remain above all a player from another era, a shadow teammate for several seasons behind the myth Cristiano Ronaldo, before taking the light with ease at the start of the Portuguese in 2018. Altruistic as rarely for an attacker, as happy to make his partners shine as to occupy all the attention, “KB9” is a breed apart in the caste of immense attackers. A species on the verge of extinction in the age of hight lights excessively, long-distance sprinting footballers, sometimes as strong as a light-heavyweight boxer.
SEE ALSO – Karim Benzema’s best goals at Real Madrid (2009-2023)
The contract of a lifetime awaits him in Saudi Arabia
Through hard work, demands, sacrifice and patience, Karim Benzema left Madrid looking straight in the eyes at all the greatest strikers in the world. If he doesn’t run the fastest, shoot the hardest or jump the highest, the Gone is undoubtedly one of the most complete scorers of his generation, with an uncommon game intelligence. Once his interlude in Saudi Arabia is over with the bank account that will shelter hundreds of generations, it will be high time to also mention the gray areas of the former Lyonnais, whose communication is not always good. controlled and of a behavior in selection which will not have had the echo of his XXL years in Madrid. But this Thursday, when leaving the scene of Real Madrid, the biggest club in the history of world football, Karim Benzema comes out the front door. Like a legend.
”
data-script=”
>
#years #Real #Madrid #legend #Benzema #leaving