Ousmane Dembélé Wins Ballon d'Or
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🗓️ 22 September 2025
⏱️ 49 minutes
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| 0:35.3 | Welcome into the latest edition of ESPNFC. I'm Dan Thomas joined by Sh Shaka Hislav, and we are delighted to be joined by a man who snubbed the Ballandoors ceremony |
| 0:43.3 | to come all the way here to Bristol, Connecticut to give us his opinion as to whether or not |
| 0:49.3 | Usman Dembele should have won it, because that's exactly what took place moments ago. |
| 0:55.0 | The PSG attacker was given the award ahead of Laminemarle who finished second. |
| 1:00.0 | Romardino was on hand, of course, represented both Barcelona and PSG to hand out the award. |
| 1:07.0 | Meanwhile, we saw her as well for the women's Ballandorf for the third time in a row, |
| 1:13.1 | Aetana Bonnati would be awarded the best women's player in the world. Stuart Robson joins us. |
| 1:20.4 | These are the only people who could get on who could talk about this seriously. |
| 1:23.5 | Gaddi, I'm going to start with you. You happy when Denbelli? |
| 1:44.4 | I kind of am on the basis that, you know, as Jules likes to say, this really, really matters. It's a bit like talking about an X. That's your other show. That's your other problem. No, but look, I think realistically, I don't think Dembelli is going to win another one. Right. It's just not going to happen. |
| 2:02.3 | At his age, the competition, we're seeing this year, Mbapé and Holland off to a really hot start. La Mena Malle is 18 years old. He'd have opportunities to win many more. So, yeah, why not Uzman D'embele? Best player? I have no complaint. Listen, if the voting was down to me and me alone, |
| 2:08.8 | I probably would give it to La Minia Mal, but I've got no issue with Dembele. Given his performances for PSG, giving PSG success, both domestically and more to the point with PSG in |
| 2:14.9 | Europe and Dembele's contribution to that, were the winner, yes. |
| 2:20.7 | Robert? |
| 2:23.7 | And he turned his season around, didn't he? |
| 2:25.7 | When they first played in the Champions League, he was dropped for the game against Arsenal. |
| 2:29.0 | He was for disciplinary reasons. |
| 2:31.4 | When he was at Barcelona, he was in and out. |
| 2:33.6 | But suddenly he became a top-class player season. Scored goals, change a position plan at Centreford. He linked up the play, showed intelligence, he showed pace. He was a leader for the team. They won things as well, which I know Shacker always thinks is important when it comes to individual awards, that he must win a club competition and they did that so I've got no |
| 2:51.5 | complaints if I'm slightly biased because I see um lamin yamal you know nearly every week whereas |
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