Claiming that he had more certainties with Kylian Mbappé than Karim Benzema in the France team, the ex-international tricolor Jérôme Rothen drew the wrath of the Ballon d’Or 2022, which stung him on social networks in showing a photo of the former PSG player wearing the Ankaragucu jersey (Turkish D1) before showing himself with his new individual award with the inscription “Stay focused”. On the antennas of RMC during his show Rothen ignitesthe 44-year-old former left-back wanted to respond – with humor – to the Real Madrid striker.
“Karim, frankly the photo made me laugh, I hope there was also a lot of humor on your side. You are a bit out of step with everything that was said during the week. I’m going to be a little more serious. What makes me sad isn’t the tweet or the photo sent, it’s that Karim Benzema took it as an attack. During the week, we still did two two-hour programs on the Ballon d’Or. We are all ecstatic over Benzema. There’s nothing to say, me first, he’s a fabulous player, he had an incredible year, we said it over and over again for two hours. And that over two hours, you can express some doubts. (…) We have to put things in their context. I do not imagine for a single second that Karim is upset by what I said and that he thinks that Jérôme Rothen, with the career he has, will allow himself to denigrate our new Ballon d’Or.
?? “Bravo Karim, the photo made me laugh! It’s not Jérôme Rothen with the career he has who will allow himself to denigrate Karim Benzema, new Ballon d’Or”
good player, @RothenJerome responds with humor to the pike of @Benzema on Instagram. #RMCLive pic.twitter.com/Iow3rq4ika
— Rothen ignites (@Rothensenflamme) October 21, 2022
