The 2025 Golden Ball race continues to unleash passions. Author of a historic quadrupled last season, with the hell of the coronation in the Champions League as a highlight, Paris Saint-Germain succeeded in the feat of place nine players in the list of 30 nominees to the most prestigious of individual distinctions in football. Which is a record for a club.
If among these nine Parisians would deserve to succeed Rodri, two names are clearly clear: Ousmane Dembélé and Achraf Hakimi. To put all its chances on its side and avoid the dispersion of the voices, PSG has decided since the end of the 2024-2025 exercise to campaign for its number 10. Yes but here, the Moroccan also deserves the Ballon d'Or. And he recently made it known during an interview with Canal+.
“” If I have the opportunity to win it, I think I deserve it too, Hakimi thus dropped. After the historic season I made – there are not many players who scored in quarters, half and in the final – while it is more difficult as a defender. People think I am an attacker or no midfielder, but no, I play in a four line and I must think about defending. The statistics I had this year are not those of a normal defender. I think that when a defender does that, he deserves more than an attacker.
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Castaldi: “Wanting to individualize and prioritize influence on this team does not make sense”
An opinion shared by Grégory Schneider, who clearly took a position in favor of the Atlas lion. “” Hakimi is a thousand times right to estimate that he deserves the Golden Ball 2025. He scores in quarters of LDC, in half, in the final, he changes the PSG game alone, he is the best in the season … He will not let the others do their little business around Dembélé “Wrote on X consultant the channel L'Equipe. Words that had the gift of annoying his colleague Giovanni Castladi.
“” He changes the PSG game alone ”… I can't understand. This Paris was a collective marvel, with a lot of trips, permutations. Wanting to individualize and prioritize the influence on this team does not make sense. The proof is with the 9 nominees in the Ballon d'Or “Replied Giovanni Castaldi.
