Golden ball: Karim Benzema, big favorite according to 68% of football fans

For the suspense, it will certainly be necessary to iron.

Monday night, the Ballon d'Or will likely go to Karim Benzema.

The French Real Madrid striker is coming off an exceptional season, crowned with a victory in La Liga and the Champions League and during which he has almost destroyed any competition for this individual award.

An observation also shared by football fans questioned in the context of an Odoxa survey carried out for RTL and the sports betting site Winamax.

68% of them see Karim Benzema as the big favorite for this Ballon d'Or 2022.

Round ball fans are 70% to consider that the former Lyonnais has marked the history of his sport.

It must be said that in 2022, he became the second top scorer in the history of Real Madrid during the European Super Cup against Eintracht Frankfurt last August (2-0).

With now 327 goals on the clock, he is still far from the Portuguese Cristiano Ronaldo (450 goals).

An altruistic and spectacular player

In the merengue jersey – but also in the France team, where he is the 5th top scorer in history – Karim Benzema is panicking with the statistics.

But none the less "altruistic", as evidenced by his 15 assists delivered last season.

A quality recognized by 70% of football fans.

They are also 69% to define it as "spectacular" and 56% as "charismatic".

Regarding humility, the results are more divided since only one out of two football fans grants him this virtue.

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Totally at half mast in the mid-2010s and his exclusion from the France group in 2016, the popularity of Karim Benzema has continued to grow in recent years.

His club performances have convinced the skeptics.

His successful Euro 2021 in the blue jersey (4 goals in 4 games), despite an early elimination, and his magnificent goal scored in the final of the League of Nations against Spain (1-2), definitely gave him won back the hearts of the French.

Barring cataclysm, he should become the fifth Frenchman in history on Monday to win the supreme award.

He would thus succeed Raymond Kopa, Michel Platini, Jean-Pierre Papin and Zinédine Zidane.