DBasia.news – The Ballon d’Or is the most prestigious individual award in world football, nominations for 2022 have been established. The prestigious individual announcement will be held on October 17. Karim Benzema as the strongest candidate to win the award.
There is a lot of common ground about who should win the 2022 Ballon d’Or. There are many reasons why Benzema is favorite to win the prestigious award, given that the Frenchman was the star who led Real Madrid to LaLiga, Spanish Super Cup and Champions League this season. then. It was his best form in terms of statistics with 44 goals and 15 assists in all competitions.
This year, there was a change to determine the winner of the Ballon d’Or. Since 2022, the assessment will no longer be based on performances in the calendar year, but on the previous football season.
In other words, the 2021-2022 season will be the judge of this season’s Ballon d’Or, the year Benzema put in an impressive performance.
However, Benzema is not the only Real Madrid or LaLiga player to be nominated this year. The French player is one of seven candidates playing in LaLiga.
Of the 30 players in the nominations, there are teammates, namely Thibaut Courtois, Vinicius, Casemiro, Luka Modric, and Antonio Rudiger. Robert Lewandowski, a new FC Barcelona recruit, was also included in the nominees list.
If this year’s Ballon d’Or was won by Benzema, or any other LaLiga player, it would confirm Spanish football’s dominance in this award event.
Looking at the history of the Ballon d’Or, players from LaLiga clubs have won the award 23 times. It is followed by Serie A with 18 winners, the Bundesliga with nine, and the Premier League with six winners.
Looking at the 21st century alone, 15 of the 21 Ballon d’Or winners so far played for Spanish clubs in the year they won the award: Ronaldo Nazario (Real Madrid, 2002), Ronaldinho (Barcelona, 2005), Fabio Cannavaro (Real Madrid). Madrid, 2006), Lionel Messi (Barcelona, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2015, 2019 and 2021), Cristiano Ronaldo (Real Madrid, 2013, 2014, 2016 and 2017), and Luka Modric (Real Madrid, 2018).
Benzema hopes to become the eighth player to win the Ballon d’Or while playing with Real Madrid, and the seventh LaLiga player to win the prestigious award this century.
With his form last season, it is very likely he will present the most prestigious individual trophy to the Real Madrid fans at the Bernabeu in the next few months.
Here is the complete list of nominees for the 2022 Ballon d’Or:
Thibaut Courtois (Real Madrid)
Rafael Leão (Milan)
Christopher Nkunku (RB Leipzig)
Mohamed Salah (Liverpool)
Joshua Kimmich (Bayern Munich)
Trent Alexander-Arnold (Liverpool)
Robert Lewandowski (FC Barcelona)
Bernardo Silva (Manchester City)
Vinícius Júnior (Real Madrid)
Luis Diaz (Liverpool)
Karim Benzema (Real Madrid)
Fabinho (Liverpool)
Riyad Mahrez (Manchester City)
Son Heung-min (Tottenham Hotspur)
Casemiro (Real Madrid)
Phil Foden (Manchester City)
Harry Kane (Tottenham Hotspur)
Sadio Mané (Bayern Munich)
Darwin Núñez (Liverpool)
Mike Mainnan (Milan)
Sébastien Haller (Borussia Dortmund)
Luka Modrid (Real Madrid)
Antonio Rudiger (Real Madrid)
Cristiano Ronaldo (Manchester United)
Kevin De Bruyne (Manchester City)
João Cancelo (Manchester City)
Erling Haaland (Manchester City)
Kylian Mbappé (Paris Saint-Germain)
Virgil van Dijk (Liverpool)
Dušan Vlahovid (Juventus)