30 goals in all competitions, iconic images, spectacular gestures and a status of best global goleador in the year 2025: Ousmane Dembélé emerges as one of the big favorite in the Ballon d'Or France Football for this season.
Because he is the best player for the best current team, the former Barcelona bursts the screen. To the point of glowing his competitors? With the Barcelonan Lamine Yamal and Raphinha, but also his great friend in Kylian Mbappé blue, the number 10 of PSG will not be the only applicant to the prestigious distinction.
Mbappé delighted for Dembélé
Seeing Dembélé lift the individual trophy before Mbappé would be a small feeling. The two wonders hatched at the same time, 8 years ago, but the second always seemed programmed for this destiny. However, the Captain of the Blues observes the success of his accomplice with the greatest benevolence.
“With Ousmane, it's easy, we talk to each other every day, said Kylian Mbappé in an interview with the Le Parisien newspaper. To see him do this, it touches me personally because I know how much he was criticized, oh how mocked he was. I, since we were 14 years old, I have been his first supporter. I have always said, even when he was not scoring, that he was one of the best players in the world. Some believed that I said that because I like it. But I can differentiate between friendship and reality on the ground. Ousmane arrived at maturity at 27, this is normal in football. There are players who are earlier, so some have thought that he was late. »»
The Ballon d'Or: Mbappé is not pronounced
Kylian Mbappé insists: “Ousmane Dembélé has never been late, it is the normal evolution of a footballer, he reached his fullness at 27 years old. And he still has great years ahead of him. I'm really happy for him and I hope he will continue like this. He deserves what is happening to him, he worked for that and I hope he will continue at this rate also in the French team until 2026, that we can be world champion (laughs). »»
To the point of becoming a golden ball? The response of the Real Fuse star. “” What is a golden ball player? Rodri, is he a golden ball player for you? For me, at the base, it was not one, I thought that the Ballon d'Or would return to Vinicius but in the end, it was Rodri who had it. If I told you that three months before, you would have said to me, “But what do you say?” Today, we do not know who leans the Ballon d'Or, except that we should not exclude anyone, that all players can be rewarded, perhaps even a goalkeeper … “.
