{"id":1191360,"date":"2022-08-26T15:46:08","date_gmt":"2022-08-26T15:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/08\/26\/benzema-carlo-ancelotti-win-uefa-player-coach-of-the-year-awards\/"},"modified":"2022-08-26T15:46:08","modified_gmt":"2022-08-26T15:46:08","slug":"benzema-carlo-ancelotti-win-uefa-player-coach-of-the-year-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/08\/26\/benzema-carlo-ancelotti-win-uefa-player-coach-of-the-year-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"Benzema, Carlo Ancelotti win UEFA player, coach of the year awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\">\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"457\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/image_2022-08-26_120923017-696x457.png\"   alt=\"\" title=\"Soccer Football - 2021\/22 UEFA Player and Coach of the Year Awards - Halic Congress Center, Istanbul, Turkey - August 25, 2022 Real Madrid's Karim Benzema poses with the men's player of the year award and the men's coach of the year award winner Real Madrid coach Carlo Ancelotti REUTERS\/Murad Sezer\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Soccer Football &#8211; 2021\/22 UEFA Player and Coach of the Year Awards &#8211; Halic Congress Center, Istanbul, Turkey &#8211; August 25, 2022 Real Madrid&#8217;s Karim Benzema poses with the men&#8217;s player of the year award and the men&#8217;s coach of the year award winner Real Madrid coach Carlo Ancelotti REUTERS\/Murad Sezer<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Karim Benzema has been named UEFA Men\u2019s Player of the Year \u2014 solidifying his status as favourite to win the Ballon d\u2019Or after scoring a personal best 15 goals as Real Madrid won the 2022 Champions League.<\/p>\n<p>Benzema, 34, helped fire Madrid to a LaLiga and Champions League Double last season and was the key man in their string of dramatic European comebacks, including scoring hat tricks against Paris Saint-Germain and Chelsea.<\/p>\n<p>The award was handed out at a ceremony in Istanbul on Thursday \u2014 coinciding with the Champions League group-stage draw for 2022-23 \u2014 where Madrid manager Carlo Ancelotti was also named UEFA Men\u2019s Coach of the Year.<\/p>\n<p>Ancelotti was picked ahead of City\u2019s Pep Guardiola and Liverpool\u2019s Jurgen Klopp.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/22191989129,1002554\/MGL\/mgl_ado_atunwa_300x250 --><\/p>\n<p>When asked how he had become the most successful coach in the competition, Ancelotti said: \u201cThe passion I have for the sport and the quality of the players.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLast season there was a fantastic connection between the veterans and young ones, there was fantastic chemistry with the supporters that helped us reach an unbelievable achievement.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On Benzema, Ancelotti said: \u201cKarim is not just a fantastic striker and top scorer, he\u2019s a fantastic footballer, supported by great attitude day by day.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCompared to last year, this year he improved his knowledge, he knows the game really well, how to manage the game and he\u2019s a strong leader in the dressing room and a good friend of mine. We are lucky to have Karim.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Benzema beat teammate Thibaut Courtois and Manchester City\u2019s Kevin De Bruyne to the Men\u2019s Player of the Year prize, which is voted on by a jury of club representatives and journalists from a 15-player shortlist chosen by UEFA\u2019s technical study group.<\/p>\n<p>Benzema follows Jorginho, who took the 2021 award after winning the Champions League with Chelsea and Euro 2020 with Italy.<\/p>\n<p>Despite a glittering career, winning five Champions Leagues and four LaLiga titles in 13 years at Real Madrid, the France forward has won relatively few individual accolades.<\/p>\n<p>He finished fourth in the voting for the 2021 Ballon d\u2019Or behind Lionel Messi, Robert Lewandowski and Jorginho, but is the favourite to take the 2022 prize when it is handed out by France Football in October.<\/p>\n<p>            <!--  [embed]https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=videoseries[\/embed]<!--\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>--><\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"W7KiLx_0bQI\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Badwam Sports News on Adom TV (26-8-22)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/W7KiLx_0bQI?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Soccer Football &#8211; 2021\/22 UEFA Player and Coach of the Year Awards &#8211; Halic Congress Center, Istanbul, Turkey &#8211; August 25, 2022 Real Madrid&#8217;s Karim Benzema poses with the men&#8217;s player of the year award and the men&#8217;s coach of the year award winner Real Madrid coach Carlo Ancelotti REUTERS\/Murad Sezer Karim Benzema has been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1191362,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[5185,365,5835,22925,1763,731,5340,309,293],"class_list":["post-1191360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ancelotti","tag-awards","tag-benzema","tag-carlo","tag-coach","tag-player","tag-uefa","tag-win","tag-year"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1191360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1191360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1191360\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1191360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1191360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1191360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}