Golden ball: and the best goalkeeper is …

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By: Manu Tournoux

Golden ball: and the best goalkeeper is ...

Winner of the Champions League, three national trophies and finalist of the Club World Cup with PSG, Gianluigi Donnarumma won the Yachine trophy, rewarding the best goalkeeper of the year on Monday evening.

Gianluigi Donnarumma has redone. The Italian goalkeeper offered himself a second Yachine trophy, four years after his first coronation in 2021.

Hero of the Euro with Italy four years ago, this time he built his triumph on the impressive European course of PSG, finally crowned in the Champions League. The one who also took 9th place in the 2025 Golden Ball classification stacked the national trophies (Ligue 1, French Cup, Champions Trophy) and disputed the final of the Club World Cup.

He is ahead of Alisson Becker, champion of England with Liverpool. At 32, the Brazilian, already a winner of the yachine in 2019, shone by his regularity (14 clean-Sheets in 40 games) and was one of the engines of a collective who became king in the Premier League. But the absence of a marking European course – elimination from the round of 16 against PSG – deprived it of the highest step.

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