Ousmane Dembélé, the Ballon d'Or is moving away

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By: Manu Tournoux

The suspense is at its height for the 2025 gold ball race. Lamine Yamal may have taken over Ousmane Dembélé.

With Lamine Yamal, Ousmane Dembélé is one of the two major contenders for obtaining the Ballon d'Or 2025. Author of 25 goals since the start of the calendar year, the tricolor international has achieved an exceptional season.

The coronation of Paris Saint-Germain in the Champions League last weekend in Munich, even seemed to give him a step ahead of the young Iberian prodigy. Only here, the French team lost to Spain (5-4), Thursday evening, during the semi-final of the League of Nations.

A meeting in which Ousmane Dembélé did not know how to finish the game. All the opposite of his competitor, sparkling and contributing greatly to the qualification of his selection for the final of Sunday against Portugal.

Lamine Yamal now favorite for the Golden Ball 2025?

Tomorrow, Lamine Yamal will therefore have a new possibility of highlighting and that the Ballon d'Or runs turns to its advantage. Released on injury on Thursday evening, the PSG player should miss the start of the club World Cup, according to The team.

As a reminder, three criteria are retained by the organizers for obtaining the award awarded to the best footballer of the year. It is the individual performance, the charts and the fair play as well as the positive attitude of the player. One hundred journalists from a hundred different countries, representing the first hundred countries in the FIFA classification, participate in the vote.