Karim Benzema has become a true reference for his team, Al Ittihad, which is achieving the impossible, which is nothing other than being above the feared Al Hilal. The Frenchman, as he has said in MARCA, says he still has the ropes for a while and there is no end in sight for his career. At the very least, his team is going to do everything possible to make it last a little longer. It matters little that he is 37 years old, but rather the commitment he shows on a daily basis.
After a complicated season, his debut in Saudi football, a radical change has come, starting with the club, bench and locker room and ending with the player himself. All this has meant that the Benzema who amazed Europe, winning the double, Champions League and League, plus the Ballon d’Or, has returned and has the challenge of making Al Ittihad champions.
Happiness in both senses
At the club, from first to last, starting with Lurent Blanc, followed by Ramón Planes and the rest of the staff, they are delighted with the Frenchman’s commitment, assuming leadership and the way he understands the message that a leader must transmit to the rest. of colleagues: commitment.
His renewal, his contract ends on June 30, is a question that goes beyond sporting decisions, but if the club is clear about one thing, it is that Benzema has become something more than a player. The time will come when the ownership of the club and the Frenchman will sit down to talk to find a common ground or at least that is what everyone hopes within a team that exudes professionalism.
Florentino Pérez and Benzema, in the presentation of the Frenchman.DIEGO G. SOUTO
Fifteen years of friendship
While this happens, on the horizon, there is always the possibility of returning to what he says is his home, Real Madrid. It’s not something immediate. It is written on the horizon, but it is not yet time for that return. It will come. Everything in its time, but the Florentino Pérez-Karim Benzema marriage will return one day.
It goes on for sixteen years in which one and the other crossed paths. A plane trip to Lyon was definitive so that something more than a simple contractual relationship always existed between the two. The president of Real Madrid was always his most faithful defender and Benzema will never forget that, but until the time comes for his return, he thinks about continuing to play football.
