Benzema is the feeling

The situation

“Ho, ho… Mamma mia, Karim!”. This is how Carlo Ancelotti received Benzema at the Beverly Hills Hotel in Los Angeles, where Real Madrid is staying for this pre-season tour of the West Coast of the United States.The Italian coach took a first look at him from afar and took off his glasses, as if he needed to see him without interference of any kind: his starting striker, the team’s star, is already at his disposal. Benzema, at 34 years old, enjoyed an extra vacation granted by the white club itself, which knows that the Frenchman’s chances of rotation during the season will be slim, even more so with a World Cup like the one in Qatar in the middle of the course, splitting it in two. Karim has enjoyed almost a week more rest than the rest of the European internationals to recharge his batteries; This Tuesday he will hold his first training session with the team , starting at 10:00 am in Los Angeles (7:00 pm in Spain). Benzema greeted all his teammates one by one in this reunion, after a season, 2021-22, which closed as the best of his career: he scored 44 goals in 46 games, finishing as the top scorer in both the League and the Champions League, both tournaments that Real Madrid raised largely thanks to their success in the area. Merits that have made him the only viable candidate to win the next individual awards: FIFA The Best, the Golden Ball, the UEFA award for the best player in the last Champions League… Except for a major surprise, they will all be for him .

Benzema and the Las Vegas Classic

Benzema stopped to chat with Ancelotti for a moment and then hugged all his teammates, stopping especially with his friends Ferland Mendy and Eden Hazard. The Belgian has arrived at the preseason in top form and is determined to earn a place in the Whites’ attack, the one that remains to be covered to accompany Benzema and Vinicius in the Whites’ offensive.