Well-known journalist Igor Linnik, following the results of the award of the Golden Ball in 2022 to the Frenchman Karim Benzema, said that he thinks about the prospects of Ukrainian football players in the future to receive this prize.
“The representatives of Ukraine became the owners of the Golden Ball three times - Oleg Blokhin (1975), Igor Belanov (1986) and Andriy Shevchenko (2004). Let's hope there will be a sequel...
It is still difficult to put at least one of our current football players on a par with the best players of our time, but Mikhail Mudryk definitely has a chance to see his name on the list of nominees one day!
The main thing is to dream, improve and go towards the goal - the way it has been done throughout his long career, for example, now almost 35-year-old Karim Benzema. Here is his schedule for approaching the Ballon d'Or 2022...,” Linnik wrote on his Facebook page, attaching the above infographic.