In three months to the day, the name of the Ballon d'Or 2025 will already be known. With a discount ceremony set for September 22, the race is in its final phase. Two favorites still seem to be detached from competition with a duel between Ousmane Dembélé and Lamine Yamal. Currently injured, the PSG player has not yet played a minute from the Club World Cup that his team played in June. But he absolutely wants to come back to the field. And as soon as possible.
Victim of a lesion to the quadriceps of the left thigh occurred on June 5 during the semi-final of the League of Nations lost by the French team against Spain (4-5), the Parisian offensive has done since necessary to find the lawns. If he scrupulously follows the fitness protocol which was dictated to him, he also knows that he must take advantage of the absence of Barça from Lamine Yamal to the World Cups to show himself and earn points in the minds of voters in the Golden Ball 2025.
As told by The teamthe staff of PSG shows prudence and calms the ardor of an Ousmane Dembélé in a hurry to return. After missing the first two games of his own against Atlético de Madrid (victory, 4-0) and Botafogo (defeat, 0-1), the former Stade Rennais absolutely wants to make an impression. The next PSG meeting is set for Monday evening. For their third group match, Luis Enrique's men will play their qualification against Seattle Sounders (9 p.m.).
Dembélé not obsessed with the Ballon d'Or, but …
The chances of seeing Ousmane Dembélé participating are not to be ruled out completely at the moment, even if the Parisian staff would still like to leave him a little rest before the direct elimination phase. As the sports daily has explained, many of Ousmane Dembélé's partners tell him about his chances of becoming the next Ballon d'Or. This necessarily has an effect on the player and his desire to put together the crampons.
The idea of the tricolor international remains to find the path of the nets, he who remains at thirty-three goals and fifteen assists on the clock for several weeks now. If he is not a priori obsessed with the Ballon d'Or, he also knows that he has never been so close to it. And that the train could never go back to him.
