Ballon d'Or 2026: 'He's one of them' - PSG's Zabarnyi names player who deserves award

Paris Saint-Germain defender, Ilya Zabarnyi, has backed teammate Ousmane Dembele to triumph the Ballon d'Or this year.

The Ukrainian believes Dembele is 1 of the PSG players who merit to triumph the Ballon d'Or.

The 24-year-old spoke astatine his post-match interrogation pursuing PSG's 3-1 against Strasbourg successful the French Ligue 1 brushwood connected Saturday.

"We person galore players successful our squad who merit this award, and Dembele is 1 of them," Zabarnyi said via Foot Mercato

"So I truly anticipation to spot 1 of our players triumph the Ballon d'Or due to the fact that they merit it."

Dembele won the Ballon d'Or past twelvemonth up of Barcelona's Lamine Yamal, who finished runner-up.

Ballon d'Or 2026: 'He's 1 of them' - PSG's Zabarnyi names subordinate who deserves award