Karim Benzema: I Promised My Mom I would Play For Real Madrid
Mommy’s boy Olympique Lyon’s star striker Karim Benzema might have pledged to stay with the current French champions this season but he’s started work on his move for next summer already, with a style eerily familiar to anyone who followed the Ronaldo saga earlier this year:
Apparently Benzema’s is to play for the mighty Real Madrid and the soon-to-turn 21 year old French international has told Le Buteur that he promised his mother long back that he would go onto feature for the most successful football club in Europe, namely Real Madrid.
Stop me if you’ve heard this…
Benzema has been quoted as saying:
“It is my hidden dream in sport and it is a dream that is coming closer little by little. I like the white kit, the stadium, the atmosphere that exists around the Bernabéu…I promised my mother that one day I would play for Real Madrid, and I want that to come true.”
If I was a conspiracy theorist I’d say there’s a manual being circulated amongst football players titled: “How to engineer a transfer to Real Madrid” and most football players fail to make it past page 3, thus settling for the #1 trick suggested by the unknown author (Calderon probably), a combination of ‘it’s a dream’ and ‘my mother wants me to go’.
Just for this I hope Lyon price Madrid out of a move, although that’s unlikely to happen given Lyon’s history of making ridiculous amounts of money off their players. 30m? 40m? Summertime should be fun.
Topics: Football Transfers, La Liga, Ligue 1, Lyon, Real Madrid


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karim benzema, if u promised ur mom that u goin to play for madrid. then u can’t break ur promised wat u promised.
and if u want to play for real…..then GOOOO….and help us win the title 32 la liga.
December 16th, 2008 @ 22:04Great article – wouldn’t put it past Calderon to circulate a manual, so don’t give him any ideas, if he hasn’t already.
December 17th, 2008 @ 02:28Why is it that all the best payers in the world have mums that are real madrid supporters!!
December 17th, 2008 @ 02:40wonder what real madrid sporting director raul……. OOPS sorry mijatovic has to say about this?
December 17th, 2008 @ 08:25It’s become quite clear to me that Real Madrid have developed some sort of time machine that allows them to go back and make every player they want a childhood Real Madrid fan.
December 17th, 2008 @ 10:27If benzema play for real… and huntelaar coming in… where raul and nisteroy gonna play??? why real madrid want to sign more striker, they dont have any shortlist for defender… how many time madrid get clean sheet this season??? hmmm, i wish John terry promise his mom to play for real one day, so he can play with cannavaro and ramos.
December 21st, 2008 @ 14:52go real madrid
May 21st, 2009 @ 07:16malaysia boleh