Mourinho is sincere after the Golden Ball of 'Gato' Benzema

Karim Benzema has been distinguished like the best player of the world after signing a brilliant season 2021/22 in which it was key for the obtaining of the titles of LaLiga and the Champions for the Real Madrid. The reactions of the world of the football have not done expect, especially by part of José Molurinho, the one who went his trainer go in 2010 and 2013.

In his words for 'L'Équipe', the today trainer of the Rome has valued the talent and the personality of Benzema: "Karim is a fantastic type, has a big personality, is a player of team. It does not be obsessed I achieve same, with the Balloon of Gold. With marking more goals that To, B or C. Simply it is a player of team that does so much, until the point that the Balloon of Gold is a natural consequence. I think that it is a type got obsessed with the team".

Likewise, it has detailed how it was of influence for him during his go through the Madrid: "When I was his trainer, was a footballer with a lot of talent, in search of his identity like player of very high level, with the suitable ambitions and the suitable physical condition. It wanted to that it grew the fastest possible and was hard with him, corrected him in all the detallitos, the minimum kilo of more and the minimum minute of delay in the training. I do not know if I influenced in his development, only he knows it, but his character fortísimo allowed him progress".

For Mourinho, Benzema has deserved the distinction: "I gladden Me a lot by him. From it does four or five years is a man, the boss of the team that answers in the key moments that make history. It is a phenomenal footballer in the maximum of his potential, physicist, mental and tactical. Karim is a polyvalent player. If there was three Karim in a big team, would play all: one would be goleador, the another leader, the last would play in the left side... I am very happy because sometimes the Balloon of Gold only recognises the pure talent. There it tops so much the individual talent as to a man that always has defended the essence of the football: the community".

The day that 'Mou' nicknamed him like the 'Cat'

However, the opinion of the of Setúbal on the attacker no always has been the same. In fact, when they coincided in the white changing room, the míster coined a mote that has perdurado until the actuality: "If you do not have a dog to go to hunt and have a cat, as you go with the cat, because only you can not go. With a dog hunt. With a cat hunt, but less".