Ousmane Dembélé wrote a page of history on Monday by registering his name at the Ballon d'Or list. The native of Vernon is indeed only the sixth tricolor player to win the prestigious distinction after Raymond Kopa, Michel Platini, Jean-Pierre Papin, Zinedine Zidane and Karim Benzema.
Present with his faithful assistant, Guy Stephan, at the ceremony organized at the Chatelet Theater, Didier Deschamps, as a good coach of the French team, paid tribute to his player, who himself had attention to the coach of the Blues in his speech.
“” I am proud of him, of his success, he said after the coronation of the old Rennais. It's beautiful, I am very happy for him. Today he is in the world on the global level. »» And with him it is all French football that is rewarded, for the former midfielder.
Didier Deschamps liked OM's victory against PSG
Ousmane Dembélé had “An atypical journey, with a lot of injuries, continued the double world champion.
But he has always had this capacity, this strength, to play down and to say that he was going to come back stronger. »» And while raising these injuries at the microphone of the L'Equipe chain, Didier Deschamps was also interrupted by DJ Snake, a fervent supporter of Paris.
“Speaking of injuries Didier …”, He launched the artist in reference to the serious injury to the hamstrings at the last international window when the PSH had alerted the medical staff of the Blues to the state of fatigue of his player.
“But the coach of the Blues did not allow himself to be dismantled. “Yes, you should thank me because otherwise he could not have been there tonight as there was a match apparently at the Vélodrome, do you know the score or not?” “, Did he reply to him that OM had just ended fourteen years of scarcity at home by dominating PSG. “I know we lost”, Just blown DJ Snake.