Alexia Putellas and Karim Benzema win the 2022 Ballon d’Or.

Published by: Zeenat Lawal.


Alexia Putellas and Karim Benzema won the Ballon d'Or award for the best football players in the world on Monday.

The Spanish midfielder kept her title as the best women's player in 2022 after scoring 18 goals to lead her team, Barcelona, to another domestic trophy. 

The Catalan team won all 30 league games as well as both domestic cups, but an ACL injury prevented her from playing in the European Championship.


Spain, her national team, lost to the eventual champions, England, in the quarter-finals.

“I’m very happy to be back here,” Putellas said at the ceremony in Paris.

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

UFC 281 pre-event facts: History at stake for multiple fighters on huge card.

Image
By Tolulope Onifade.  Edited by: Soliu Mohammed            (📸PHOTO:MMA JUNKIE) The UFC returns to New York on Saturday for its annual event at Madison Square Garden with UFC 281, which has a main card that airs on pay-per-view following prelims on ESPN and ESPN+. A doubleheader of championship bouts is featured at the top of the card, with middleweight champion Israel Adesanya (23-1 MMA, 12-1 UFC) set to take on former two-time kickboxing rival Alex Pereira (6-1 MMA, 3-0 UFC) in the headlining act. The co-main event will see strawweight champion Carla Esparza (19-6 MMA, 10-4 UFC) attempt to kick off her second reign in positive fashion when she meets former titleholder Zhang Weili (22-3 MMA, 6-2 UFC). For more on the numbers behind both title bouts, as well as the rest of the card, check below for MMA Junkie’s pre-event facts for UFC 281. ISRAEL ADESANYA       (📸PHOTO...
Read more