Karim Benzema, also known as Benzema, was born on the 19th of December in 1987; he is a 33 years old former international footballer who has been representing the Spanish-based franchise Real Madrid for many years. Moreover, Benzema is one of the greatest finishers that is ever known in the history of football. Madrid signed him for 35 million euros in 2009, and it was the most outstanding achievement of his career.

Karim Benzema holds tons of records in his entire international as well as domestic career. He is the only player to be named as the French global player three times. Benzema performed his senior international debut when he was just 19 years old, and it was enacted in 2007.

Early life 

Karim was born in a place called Lyon in France; he was Hafid Benzema, a migrant from Algeria. Moreover, the player has eight siblings in his family; he was born and brought up in a crime happening place as most of the surrounding population were gangsters, drug dealers, and criminals. He was a victim of bullying and discrimination in school just due to his family background and his weight.

Benzema was quite fat and had many issues in the childhood just due to his appearance. Later he decided to transform himself. Karim became fit in no time and attained proper attention and respected behavior.

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Career beginning 

Karim Benzema was quite passionate about the sport from a very young as he started his football career at the age of eight only. After two years, he smashed the Lyon Youth academy by scoring and fixed the limelight on himself. You might be astonished by the fact, but Benzema served as a ball boy during the domestic matches of his region in 1996. The player debuted his first professional match in 2005, and the session 2005-06 was a breakthrough session for the player as he scored plenty of professional goals in the following session 

At first, he signed an official contract for Lyon in the year 2005 for a span of 3 years, but due to his consistent performance, the agreement was later extended in 2008 for five years. After his exceedingly brilliant performance in the matches, Benzema managed to acquire the attention of Real Madrid. Later the player was signed by the Spanish-based franchise Real Madrid for six years at an amount of 35 million euros. 

Benzema is a great forward player and striker; moreover, he is capable of defensive gameplay. He had a banger debut league match as the team completely dominated the Xerez as the team scored a goal number of 5-0, and he contributed his first goal in the number. Despite the phenomenal performance, he was the headline of a controversial matter which adversely impacted the career of Benzema as he failed to make it to the national squad of 2016. 

Net worth 

As mentioned ahead, Karimi Benzema is a former international professional football player having a net worth of $70 million.