The horizon of his latest dream has come considerably closer. Now she sticks to the reality of him. Karim Benzema’s fate changed on Monday 17 October at 9:55 pm when the Real Madrid striker became the winner in 2022 of France Football’s 66th Ballon d’Or, the supreme prize. Life ahead, trophy in hand, the striker is a happy man, the fifth Frenchman in history to be awarded this award after Raymond Kopa, Michel Platini, Jean-Pierre Papin and Zinédine Zidane, who presented him with the trophy. , twenty-four years after his coronation.