Ousmane Dembélé will not be in Marseille to face OM this Monday evening. The Parisian playmaker nevertheless has an appointment with history. The former Barcelona is indeed expected on the stage of the Châtelet theater to receive the Ballon d'Or. Conclusion of a season in solid gold.
Collectively as individually. Because while PSG made an incredible quintuplet with the highlight of the conquest of its first Champions League, the native of Vernon panicked the counters like never, compiling 35 goals and 16 assists. What give reason to Julian Stephan, who knows him from the training center of Stade Rennais.
“When I am asked about Ousmane, I am always told about his faults. I always respond to its qualities. I find that he is an extraordinary player, underlined Julien Stéphan at a press conference. In the imbalance, the dribble, the ability to create spaces, it is an exceptional player. If he had a quality of higher finish, he might be a golden ball today, it's true ”,
He confided in May 2024 after a Parisian victory against Stade Rennais in the semi-finals of the Coupe de France.
“Un very great player once married and stabilized ”
The Rennes have long been convinced of the unique talent of Ousmane Dembélé. This is evidenced by the story of Armand Djiré, the Breton discoverer of the tricolor world champion. “” At the edge of the field, with his friends, played a frail kid with incredible technique. Foot, left foot, he continued, everything seemed natural. A phenomenon. I immediately flashed ”, a-Al said in the columns of
Sunday newspaperadding having said to his referent: “I think I found a genius. »»
The beginnings were nevertheless complicated. As a result of a certain lack of seriousness, especially outside the field between outings in boxes, nights on the console and food hygiene at the endorsement. “I would like to take off a label: Ousmane is not a reveler. He simply had to adapt his lifestyle, his diet, his sleep, to be the one you see today ”, ARMAND DJIRÉ said on this subject.
And to believe the Breton recruiter, everything changed with the meeting with the one who was going to become his wife. As expected, this meeting was going to act as a break: there was a before and an after. “” From his beginnings, I knew that he would become a very great player once married and stabilized ”, he said about it. The curve of the number of his injuries is undoubtedly the best illustration.
