{"id":483914,"date":"2025-09-22T18:42:20","date_gmt":"2025-09-22T22:42:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/uncategorized\/ousmane-dembele-conquers-the-ballon-dor-2025\/"},"modified":"2025-09-22T18:42:20","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T22:42:20","slug":"ousmane-dembele-conquers-the-ballon-dor-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/sports\/football\/ousmane-dembele-conquers-the-ballon-dor-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Ousmane Dembel\u00e9 conquers the Ballon d&#8217;Or 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n<em>Paris.<\/em> \u2014 French forward <strong>Ousmane Dembel\u00e9<\/strong>, a star player for <strong>Paris Saint-Germain<\/strong>, won the <strong>2025 Ballon d&#8217;Or<\/strong> this Monday, an award given by the magazine <em>France Football<\/em> and UEFA, in a ceremony held at the historic Chatelet Theatre in Paris.\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>You may be interested in:<a href=\"http:\/\/Bal\u00f3n de Oro: Dembel\u00e9 o Lamine Yamal, el fin del enigma\">Ba<\/a><\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/Bal\u00f3n de Oro: Dembel\u00e9 o Lamine Yamal, el fin del enigma\">ll\u00f3n de Oro: Dembel\u00e9 o Lamine Yamal, el fin del enigma<\/a><\/p>\n\n\nThe 28-year-old attacker surpassed in the voting the young Spanish prodigy <strong>Lamine Yamal<\/strong> (Barcelona) and his club teammate <strong>Vitinha<\/strong>, who completed the podium. In fourth and fifth place were the Egyptian <strong>Mohamed Salah<\/strong> (Liverpool) and the Brazilian <strong>Raphinha<\/strong> (Barcelona).\n\nDemb\u00e9l\u00e9&#8217;s brilliant season with PSG was key to his consecration. The French footballer was decisive in winning the <strong>Ligue 1<\/strong>, the <strong>French Cup<\/strong>, the <strong>Champions League<\/strong> and the <strong>European Super Cup<\/strong>, establishing himself as one of the most decisive stars in world football.\n\nWith this recognition, Demb\u00e9l\u00e9 succeeds in the list of winners to the Spaniard <strong>Rodri Hern\u00e1ndez<\/strong> (Manchester City) and becomes the <strong>sixth Frenchman<\/strong> to receive the prestigious award, after <strong>Raymond Kopa (1958), Michel Platini (1983, 1984 and 1985), Jean-Pierre Papin (1991), Zinedine Zidane (1998)<\/strong> and <strong>Karim Benzema (2022)<\/strong>.\n\n&#8220;It&#8217;s a huge honor to represent my country and my club on this stage. This award reflects the team&#8217;s effort and the support of my family,&#8221; declared Dembel\u00e9, visibly moved after receiving the trophy.\n\nThe former <strong>Barcelona<\/strong> player, a native of Vernon, thus enters the history of French football as one of its contemporary legends and reaffirms PSG&#8217;s power in the European elite","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paris. \u2014 French forward Ousmane Dembel\u00e9, a star player for Paris Saint-Germain, won the 2025 Ballon d&#8217;Or this Monday, an award given by the magazine France Football and UEFA, in a ceremony held at the historic Chatelet Theatre in Paris. You may be interested in:Ball\u00f3n de Oro: Dembel\u00e9 o Lamine Yamal, el fin del enigma [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":483915,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[40943],"tags":[611,40231,41884,40853],"class_list":["post-483914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-deultimominuto","tag-dominican-republic","tag-football","tag-thetruthnewspaper"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phj1q1-21T4","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/09\/Dembele-Balon-de-oro-2.jpeg","dum_api":{"author_name":"EFE","author_image":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/1200px-EFE_logo.svg-96x96.png","categories_name":["Football"],"featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cdn.deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/09\/Dembele-Balon-de-oro-2.jpeg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=483914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483914\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/483915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=483914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=483914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=483914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}