Ousman Dembele crowned the winner of Ballon d’Or 2025 (or Photo) Paris Saint-Germain Winger Oistic Dembele finished a year defining a career by winning Ballon D’O or 2025 on Monday and rewarding his key role in the triumph of the historical PSG masters. The Frenchman stepped out of Barcelona’s teenager Lamine Yamal to succeed in the winner of 2024 Rodri as the most prestigious individual price of football, which returned to Paris.Go beyond the border with our YouTube channel. Subscribe!Dembele, 28, enjoyed a spectacular campaign after he was converted into Real Madrid after Kylian’s departure into Real Madrid. In all competitions he added amazing 35 goals and fired PSG for domestic double and their long -awaited crown of the Champions League. Crown moment came in Munich, where PSG in the finals demolished Inter Milan 5-0.“I really don’t have words. It was an incredible PSG season,” said emotional dembele at Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris. The Frenchman attributed the head coach Luis Enrique – who also took home the Award for the Club Coach of the Year – as “as a father” in the leadership of his transformation.Despite the celebration of the individual glory of Dembele, he emphasized the role of the team in his success: “It’s an individual trophy, but it was really collective that won it.”
Barcelona’s Aitana Bonmati. (AP photo)
While Dembele raised the men’s prize, Aitana Bonmati from Spain claimed that the female Ballon d’Or was running for the third year and defeated her international teammate Marion Caldentey. Bonmati, 27 years old, played on Euro 2025, although Spain lost the finals to England, and said that its continuing success was on its teams at the club and country level.The ceremony also saw Lamine Yamal, for just 18 years, to claim the trophy kick for the best young male player for the second year in a row. Goalkeeper PSG Gianluigi Donnarumma took the Yashin trophy home before his summer move to Manchester City, while Hannah Hampton was named Best Women’s Goalker. England chief Sarina Wiegman won the best female coach.Dembele’s triumph ends years of Ballon d’Ir dominance by Lionel Messi, Cristian Ronald and recently Rodri, who underlines the rise of PSG as a real European powerhouse. With his name enhanced in football history, the 2018 World Championship winner admitted that the prize was never the goal of career, but it reflected: “I won the Champions League for the team – that’s a reward.”
