Brazilian Legend Ronaldo Backs Red Hot Benzema to Win Ballon d’Or

• Brazilian great and 2002 World Cup winner Ronaldo believes Real Madrid's Karim Benzema deserves to win the 2022 Ballon d'Or award
• Ronaldo, who won the Ballon d'Or award on two occasions, and has been campaigning for Benzema for years believes this season is the French forward's year
• Benzema is enjoying an extraordinary campaign scoring 37 goals in 37 appearances and is in pole position to win the top scorer's award in both the Champions League and the La Liga

Three-time FIFA World Footballer of the Year Ronaldo Luís Nazário de Lima has tipped in-form Real Madrid forward Karim Benzema as the favourite for the 2022 Ballon d'Or award.

Ronaldo, a multiple winner of the accolade, reckons Benzema's form makes him best placed to win the Ballon d'Or award in a season most contenders have failed to match the performance of the Madrid talisman.

Benzema has been in red-hot form this season literally dragging the Los Blancos to La Liga and UEFA Champions League success with his superlative displays and most especially priceless goals.'

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His most recent hat-trick against Chelsea highlighted his form and importance to Real Madrid in equal measure and with the reverse fixture against the Premier League club on the horizon, Benzema will be expected to repeat the dose against the Blues.

And Ronaldo, a former Real Madrid player, has backed his former employers to clinch the European title.

"For the European Cup, Real Madrid are the favorites,” Ronaldo told Sky Sport Italia as quoted by GOAL. "Then they have Ancelotti on the bench, who is one of the best in the world."

Sharing his opinion on who should win the Ballon d'Or, Ronaldo unsurprisingly picked the French forward in a season regular winners Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi have underwhelmed.

"Benzema? He deserves the Ballon d’Or, I’ve been saying it for years and they’ve criticised me, but he deserves it, he’s a great striker."

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Earlier, Sports Brief reported that the Ballon d’Or as we know it is set to undergo some radical changes, with four major areas of the individual award set to be effected from as early as 2022.

Lionel Messi is the latest winner of the award as he scooped the accolade in November 2021 for the seventh time in controversial circumstances.

Messi beat Robert Lewandowski to the award, but many fans felt the Poland international deserved it more.