This Thursday, August 7, the Ballon d'Or 2025 takes its rights. Indeed, while the ceremony is scheduled for September 22, we know the names of the 30 contenders for the final coronation. Paris Saint-Germain is largely dominating with no less than 9 appointed players. We find Ousmane Dembélé, Achraf Hakimi, Vitinha, Désiré Doué, Gianluigi Donnarumma, Joao Neves, Nuno Mendes, Fabian Ruiz and Khvicha Kvaratskhelia. However, two team holders are absent and could have appeared in this list.
Thus, the history of captain Marquinhos is absent from this list of 30. The 31 -year -old Brazilian defender is not the only one in this case since his partner in the axis Willian Pacho was not appointed. The two men who won the Champions League, Ligue 1 and the French Cup while being finalist in the Club World Cup can therefore have it bad as Bradley Barcola to a lesser extent. Admittedly the French winger paid the loss of his status as a holder, but he was precious with the Ile -de -France residents with 21 goals and 21 offerings in 64 matches played.
Inter and Barça have some absent
Finalist of the Champions League, Inter Milan only places two players with Denzel Dumfries and Lautaro Martinez. For Italians, it is as much as last year when Hakan çalhanoglu had been appointed. This time, the Turk is absent despite a big season just like Marcus Thuram,, Nicolo Barella,, Alessandro Bastoni or Yann Sommer who could have appeared there.
FC Barcelona which has only 3 representatives with Lamine Yamal, Raphinha and Robert Lewandowski can also deplore some absences in the image Inigo Martinez,, Pau Cubarsi,, Jules Koundé or Jong Frenkie. On the side of the Real Madrid rival, the season was not extraordinary, but Thibaut Courtois has been efficient and finds itself absent. A surprising choice while Vinicius Junior and Jude Bellingham are in the list. Still in Spain, Julian Alvarez is one of the big absent. The striker of Atlético de Madrid, however, shone (29 goals and 8 assists in 57 matches), but that was not enough.
In Bayern Munich, Jamal Musiala released a big season, but probably pays his injury during the final sprint. On the side of England we can note the absences of Caicedo months,, Marc Cucurella And Enzo Fernandez in Chelsea, Ryan Gravenberch in Liverpool, Alexander Isak in Newcastle or certain Manchester City frames as Phil Foden who missed his season and especially the outgoing golden balloon Rodri Who has almost missed all the season for a break in the cross ligaments. Finally, the two most sacred players of the Ballon d'Or, Lionel Messi (8 titles) and Cristiano Ronaldo (5 titles) are absent for the 2nd and the 3rd consecutive year.
