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Karim Benzema and Alexia Putellas
Two Ballon d’Or deserved
No talk. Karim Benzema was deservedly awarded the Ballon d’Or for the first time in his career. This is the award for the evolution of the Madrid striker, who at 34 has reached his best level. There was also justice for the second Ballon d’Or followed by Alexia Putella, which will encourage the Barcelona player now that he is injured. Congratulations to Robert Lewandowski (Best Forward), Thibaut Courtois (Best Goalkeeper), Gavi (Best Under-21) and Manchester City (Best Team).
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Sadio Mane
The most special prize
The magazine ‘France Football’ created the Socrates Award to recognize the player who has performed the most outstanding act of solidarity or social awareness. Its name pays tribute to former Brazilian soccer player Sócrates, who was always committed to democracy. It was won on this occasion with all the honors by Senegalese striker Sadio Mané, now at Bayern after leaving Liverpool. He is recognized as one of the most supportive players in the world, even funding the construction of a hospital and a school in his hometown of Sédhiou. It’s not the Ballon d’Or that he might one day win because he doesn’t lack quality, but the Socrates is the most special award.
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Cristiano Ronaldo and Erik ten Haag
A crack and a coach who have no respect for each other
It’s hard to position yourself on the wrist between Cristiano Ronaldo and Ten Hag at Manchester United. It was unacceptable that the 37-year-old Portuguese star refused to take to the pitch in the final minutes of a match against Tottenham after spending the entire second half warming up on the wing, but it is doubtful the coach will choose of the world hero for paper to waste time. If he wanted to charge him for something or warn the locker room that he was in charge, the coach got it. Still, a little empathy for one of the world’s best players in recent times wouldn’t hurt. The non-call penalty against Chelsea was fair, yes, but the provocation was evident.
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Joseph Manuel Llaneza
Football will miss the architect of Villarreal
José Manuel Llaneza passed away on Thursday at the age of 74, having left an indelible mark on the world of football as an exemplary architect of a model club, Villarreal. He has been linked to the Castellón club for the past three decades, performing the roles of manager, CEO and vice president and has been part of the Board of Directors since 1994. He suffered from leukemia for which he was admitted to the hospital at the beginning of 2022. Fate He wanted to honor him on Thursday with an emotional minute of silence in a temple of world football like the Camp Nou. The ball will miss a man who gave dignity to the directors of this sport.
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Elnaz Rekabi
All with Iranian climbers
According to the latest information, always due to the lack of transparency surrounding this case in Iran, the Iranian climber Elnaz Rekabi is under house arrest without access to a cell phone for competing without a veil in an international event in the South Korea. Iranian authorities reportedly detained him and forced him to apologize, in addition to threatening to confiscate his family’s property, if he did not make that statement. Subsequently, when she was greeted by a crowd shouting “heroin” on her return to Tehran, after being reported missing on Tuesday, she herself said she had competed without a veil by accident, not as a political gesture.
Source: La Verdad
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