On the side during the group stage of the Club World Cup, Ousmane Dembélé returns at the best time. Only replacing, Sunday, for the eighth finals against Inter Miami, the former Rennais should indeed start the quarterfinals on Saturday, against Bayern Munich. The opportunity to remember the good memories of the voters of the Ballon d'Or.
For many, and in particular bookmakers, the tricolor world champion certainly appears to be the main favorite for the succession of Rodri. But his name is not unanimous, especially in Spain, where we took the cause for Lamine Yamal.
This is particularly the case of Hristo Stoichkov, former glory of Barça and himself winner of the Ballon d'Or in 1994, an era when only European players had a voice. “If he wins him, I will give him personally”he launched to Carrusel Deportivo.
Vitinha and Marquinhos rather than Ooumane Dembélé
“Lamine Yamal is a very young player who still has a long way to go. But I really like to look at it because it has many interesting qualities ”, he said about it.
And when evoking the main rivals of the young Spanish prodigy, the Bulgarian had other names in mind than that of Oumane Dembélé. If he has well quoted two Parisian players, Hristo Stoichkov set his sights on Vitinha, the cornerstone of the Parisian collective but also from Portugal, winner of the League of Nations, and Marquinhos, whose name comes very rarely.
