the french striker Karim Benzemawinner of Golden Ball, and the Belgian goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois, Yashin trophy as the best goalkeeper last season, shared their individual awards with the rest of their Real Madrid teammates and the coaching staff led by Carlo Ancelotti.
Before starting the work session on Tuesday in the sports city of Valdebebas,
Benzema and Courtois wanted to extend their success with their teammates with whom they posed on the training ground alongside Ancelotti.
All the Real Madrid players congratulated in person, after having done so during the Ballon d’Or gala on social media, Benzema and Courtois, who posed smiling with two awards that recognize them as the best player and the best goalkeeper in the world.
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The Whites’ striker, who will turn 35 on December 19, the author of an exceptional season culminating in victories in the Spanish league and the Champions League, succeeds Argentine Lionel Messi in the list of winners, who last season won his seventh Ballon d’Or, but was not among the candidates on this occasion.
Benzema becomes the first Frenchman to win the Ballon d’Or since Zidane did it in 1998, and he becomes the fifth, along with Raymond Kopa, Michel Platini, Jean-Pierre Papin. The Frenchman outvoted Senegalese Sadio Mané, now at Bayern Munich, finalist last year with Liverpool in the Champions League and winner of the Africa Cup. The third was Manchester City’s Belgian Kevin de Bruyne, Champions League semi-finalist and champion of England, while the fourth is Polish Robert Lewandowski, currently at Barcelona.
The bonus that Benzema will receive for winning the Ballon d’Or the million euros. A not insignificant figure for the new world winner.
It is said in press versions that the award may also mean his renewal with the white team for one more season, until June 2024.
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