Karim Benzema continues to receive support in her struggle to get her first Golden Ball. Personalities of the stature of Rafa Nadal or Zinedine Zidane They have demanded that the highest individual award in the world of football falls on the Madrid forward and the last to join the list has been Didier Deschamps.
The France coach lifted his veto after five and a half years away from Les Bleus for the case Valbuena for the dispute of the Eurocup and since then Benzema It is a fixed with the French team. Deschamps himself has recognized that Benzema “is a very serious candidate” to win the Ballon d’Or.
“From the moment that Karim is one of the candidates, he is a very serious one to win,” said Deschamps at the first press conference corresponding to this national team break. “I am not saying it because I am his coach and Karim is French,” said the coach, who pointed to the Madrid forward’s CV as an argument to receive the award.
Benzema is one of the great favorites to obtain the Ballon d’Or, but in the list of main candidates they also stand out Leo Messi, Robert Lewandowski the Jorginho, who won the Champions League with Chelsea and the Euro of nations with the Italian national team.
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