Karim Benzema is one in all three gamers nominated for the Best FIFA Men’s Player award. However, he won’t attend the ceremony in Zurich. So won’t be their membership supervisor Carlo Ancelotti, who’s amongst three nominated for one of the best supervisor award. In truth, not one of the Real Madrid gamers will attend the awards.
According to Per The Athletic, Madrid are set to overlook the occasion this weekend to organize for the primary leg of their upcoming Copa del Rey semi-final towards arch-rivals, FC Barcelona.
Even although the choice to skip the ceremony was made by membership officers, the gamers and training employees agreed to it.
Star ahead, Karim Benzema has been nominated for the boys’s greatest participant award alongside Lionel Messi and Kylian Mbappe, each of whom starred within the 2022 World Cup remaining final 12 months.
While Mbappe scored the primary hat-trick in a males’s World Cup remaining since 1966, his PSG teammate Messi was tipped as favourite to information Argentina to a 3rd world title and win the Golden Ball award Is.
Apart from particular person awards, Thibaut Courtois, Luka Modric and Benzema are all anticipated to be named within the FIFPRO XI, whereas Antonio Rudiger and Fede Valverde will miss out regardless of their nominations.
Real Madrid supervisor Ancelotti was stunned by Vinicius Junior’s exclusion from an extended listing of nominations which incorporates 26 gamers.
“I don’t know the list, but the fact that Vinicius is not on it seems strange to me,” Ancelotti had mentioned. “I think it was a mistake.”
Since scoring the one objective in Madrid’s Champions League remaining win towards Liverpool earlier this 12 months, Vinicius has scored 19 targets in 43 appearances for membership and nation.
With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
