In the early morning of February 28, Beijing time, the FIFA Annual Best Awards ceremony was held in Paris, France, Messi was elected the best male football player, and two French superstars, Benzema and Mbappe, became supporting roles. In this regard, Messi achieved the Golden Globe Award and the best "seven-star pearl" of the year, both of which were elected 7 times, and won 42 championships at the same time, only one short of the world record.
The award ceremony is arranged in Paris, French fans naturally hope that Benzema or Mbappe will be elected the 2022 World Footballer of the Year, the two have never won this award before, compared to Messi has won 6 times, beating Ronaldo ranked first in history, Benzema and Mbappe ushered in the closest opportunity to beat Messi, but in the end it still didn't.
Benzema's stats and team honours are better than Mbappe's Ligue 1 title and World Cup runner-up, including Champions League, La Liga, UEFA Super Cup, Spanish Super Cup, La Liga Top Scorer, La Liga Player of the Year, Champions League Top Scorer, Champions League Player of the Year and Ballon d'Or. However, Benzema does not have the heaviest World Cup title in hand and cannot compete with Messi.
It is worth mentioning that Benzema originally hoped to win the World Cup in Qatar, but due to a bad relationship with coach Deschamps and his French teammates, he was "driven away" before the game.
Now this FIFA of the Year award ceremony, Benzema is directly absent, and he is not here with other Real Madrid teammates and manager Carlo Ancelotti, not giving FIFA face, Benzema, Courtois, Ancelotti were shortlisted for various awards, and Modric, Valverde, Rudiger were shortlisted for the 26-man squad of the year, and finally did not participate.
In this regard, Marca newspaper explained that Real Madrid's intensive schedule is one of the reasons, but not winning is the main reason for their absence, the result has been known in advance, in the end Benzema, Courtois, Ancelotti did not win their respective awards, Messi, Martinez, Scaloni were elected, Argentina also became the first team in history to win the best player, goalkeeper, coach in the same year.