{"id":95336,"date":"2025-09-22T21:04:19","date_gmt":"2025-09-22T21:04:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/?p=95336"},"modified":"2025-09-22T21:04:19","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T21:04:19","slug":"ballon-dor-2025-ousmane-dembele-beats-lamine-yamal-to-win-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/?p=95336","title":{"rendered":"Ballon d\u2019Or 2025: Ousmane Dembele beats Lamine Yamal to win award"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Paris St-Germain\u2019s Ousmane Dembele has won the Ballon d\u2019Or, the award for the best player in the world, for the first time.<\/p>\n

The 28-year-old France forward scored 35 goals and made 14 assists in 53 matches for PSG last season as they won the treble, including their first Champions League.<\/p>\n

He was the joint top scorer in Ligue 1, with 21 goals, and named the French top-flight and Champions League player of the year.<\/p>\n

And he also helped PSG to the Club World Cup final, where they lost to Chelsea in New Jersey.<\/p>\n

Dembele, who beat Barcelona teenager Lamine Yamal to the award, was able to attend the ceremony in Paris despite the fact his team were playing on Monday evening.<\/p>\n

The forward is currently sidelined through injury, meaning he missed PSG\u2019s 1-0 home defeat by Marseille in a game which was rearranged because of a storm.<\/p>\n

It caps off a sensational career revival for a player who had not scored double figures in a league campaign season since he was a teenager at Rennes.<\/p>\n

PSG manager Luis Enrique \u2013 who was named coach of the year \u2013 deserves huge credit for Dembele\u2019s award because of a tactical switch in mid-December.<\/p>\n

He moved Dembele from a wide right to centre-forward role against Lyon on 15 December, by which stage he had only scored five goals.<\/p>\n

He hit 30 goals for PSG from that date onwards.<\/p>\n

Dembele has finally shown the quality that persuaded Barcelona to pay an initial \u00a396.8m, potentially rising to \u00a3135.5m, to sign him from Borussia Dortmund in 2017.<\/p>\n

However PSG \u2013 who dominated the 2025 Ballon d\u2019Or awards \u2013 were the team who got the bargain by recruiting him for just \u00a343.5m in 2023.<\/p>\n

Dembele also scored twice in seven caps for France in 2024-25.<\/p>\n

He is the sixth Frenchman to win the award and only the second of the 21st century after Karim Benzema in 2022.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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