Ballon d’Or: Zidane, Henry, Ribéry, Griezmann… before Benzema, a litany of failures and misunderstandings

History has tended to duplicate itself. It had already been necessary to wait, in fact, a quarter of a century to see, in 1983, Michel Platini join the winners of the Ballon d’Or Raymond Kopa, the only French player thus honored before the advent of the Turinese maestro. Between the trophy awarded to Zinédine Zidane in 1998 and the coronation of Karim Benzema, this October 17, 2022, it will therefore, in the end, have elapsed barely less time. Twenty-four years to be precise.