More than a year after Karim Benzema won the 2022 Ballon d’Or, could France get another one quickly? Selma Bacha is confident and assures that she will get it.
If we had to wait twenty-four years between Zinédine Zidane’s 1998 Ballon d’Or and the one obtained in 2022 by Karim Benzema, not sure that France needs to be as patient for the next one. And it is not necessarily on the side of men that this could happen. Particularly sure of herself, Selma Bacha announced the color in an interview published Tuesday in West France.
The daily took the opportunity to recall a sentence pronounced by Selma Bacha just before the 2023 World Cup. The left side of the France team was already convinced, the Ballon d’Or will not escape her. “ I didn’t say I was going to have it in the next two years! But I know I’ll get it and we’ll talk about it again. » A hell of a statement full of nerve and audacity from the tricolor with twenty-five selections for the Blue. A goal that is all the more ambitious when we consider how few defenders have been crowned among the men.
The Olympics to help him
On the women’s side, since the Ballon d’Or existed (2018), only attackers and midfielders have been rewarded. But Selma Bacha believes in her chances of becoming both the first French woman and the first defender to be crowned. To achieve this, he will have to continue to shine at club and national level. Hervé Renard’s daughters are also expected at the next Paris 2024 Olympic Games. If Selma Bacha and her teammates were to shine there, the latter could benefit from it in her race towards her Grail.
