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Benzema, Mbappe, Modric Top UEFA Champions League Team Of The Season

The most outstanding players that strutted their talents on the biggest European football club tournament, the UEFA Champions League have been released by UEFA.

Real Madrid captain and top striker Karim Benzema who has been widely tipped to be crowned the Ballon d’Or and FIFA The Best winner for the year 2022 is deservedly leading the attack in that team that also contained fellow Real Madrid teammates, Thibaut Courtous in goal, midfield maestro Luka Modric and forward Vinicuis Junior.

Runners up Liverpool do not have the duo of Mohamed Salah and Sadio Mane in the attack but they have four players that made the cut namely Trent Alexander- Arnold, Robert and Virgil van Dijk (in defence) and midfielder Fabinho.

Manchester City is represented by the enigmatic Kevin De Bruyne.

Centre back Antonio Rudiger who is bound for Real Madrid next season is the only Chelsea player in the team while the current most expensive player in the world, Kylian Mbappe occupies the left side of a front three alongside Benzema and Vinicuis Junior.

Meanwhile Karim Benzema has been named as the UEFA Champions League Player of the Season while Vinicuis Junior scoops the prize for the Young Player of the Season

Izuchukwu Okosi

Izuchukwu Okosi is a Nigerian sports and entertainment journalist with two decades of experience in the media industry having begun his media journey in 2002 as an intern at Mundial Sports International (MSI) and Africa Independent Television (AIT), owners of Daar Communications Plc. In October 2004, Okosi joined Complete Communications Limited, publishers of Complete Sports newspaper and Complete Football magazine as a reporter and later script writer for the Complete Sports studio. He worked there for 13 years until October 2017. Okosi also worked various times as Correspondent, Content creator and Editor at Sports Market International Magazine, Opera News, All Nigeria Soccer Media and Iconic Media Watch. He also undertook freelance writing gigs for some local and international organizations. Okosi is a member of the Actors Guild of Nigeria (AGN), Association of Movie Producers (AMP), Association of Voiceover Artistes of Nigeria (AVOA), Sports Writers Association of Nigeria (SWAN) and Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ). He has been part of cast in some Nollywood movies and radio dramas including Blood Money 2, Scores To Settle, Dead End 2, Another Campus Tale and Battle Line. Aside mainstream media and the entertainment industry, he has interests in scouting/unearthing of talents in the sports and creative sectors, exports business and property development.