The details of the votes of the Ballon d'Or 2025 delivered a first teaching: Ousmane Dembélé is a legitimate winner. On the evening of the French victory, Vincent Garcia, the boss of France Football, had raised a significant gap between the PSG striker and his dolphin Lamine Yamal.
This observation was not exaggerated, since Dembélé ended with 321 points ahead of the Spanish international. Above all, the native of Evreux was placed 73 times in the lead in the votes of the 100 jurors. A real raid.
Behind, Lamine Yamal is satisfied with “only” first 11 places. And in this register, we discover that three voters have done in originality. Among them, two played the supporter card by voting for the representative of their country.
Mbappé Golden Ball … in Mozambique
This is the case of the Scottish journalist, who placed in n ° 1 Scott MCTOMINAY, Italian champion with Naples, before doing in the most classic (Dembélé then Salah and Lamine Yamal). Ditto for the Georgian journalist, who could not miss Khvicha Kvaratskhelia, which he put at the top of his vote, granting him 15 points. Then, only Lamine Yamal (3rd) fits into the middle of the Parisian contingent (Dembélé 2e, Hakimi 4th, Vitinha 5th, Nuno Mendes 6th).
Finally, beyond these two “supporters” votes, the most surprising vote goes to the Mozambique journalist, who estimated that Kylian Mbappé deserved first place. After all, Le Bondynois won the Golden Soulier thanks to its 31 goals scored in Liga with Real Madrid. The rest of his vote? Salah, Lamine Yamal and… Vinicius Jr, with a Dembélé only 5th. With Bahrein, Brazil, Salvador and the United Arab Emirates, this 5th place is the lowest classification in Dembélé.
