Lamine Yamal shares his thoughts about the 2025 Ballon d'Or ahead of showdown with Ousmane Dembele

• The 2025 Ballon d'Or took a caller twist aft Paris Saint-Germain won the UEFA Champions League
• Ousmane Dembele became the starring favourite up of Barca stars Lamine Yamal and Raphinha
• Spanish youngster Yamal has shared his thoughts astir the impending conflict for the Golden Ball

Lamine Yamal has shared his thoughts astir the 2025 Ballon d'Or aft Ousmane Dembele became the starring favourite up of the showdown successful October.

The contention for the Ballon d'Or took a antithetic twist connected Saturday nighttime aft Paris Saint-Germain won the UEFA Champions League, beating Inter Milan 5-0 successful Munich.

Ousmane Dembele successful enactment for Paris Saint-Germain successful the Champions League final. Photo by Aurelien Meunier.
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Barcelona stars Yamal and Raphinha were the favourites earlier the last aft an awesome season, winning the La Liga, Copa del Rey, Spanish Super Cup and reaching the Champions League semi-final.

Dembele had besides been successful the contention passim the season, having won the 3 home trophies with PSG, and his chances accrued aft winning the UCL connected Saturday night.

Yamal speaks astir Ballon d'Or

Youngster Yamal has opened up astir the Ballon d'Or and if helium thinks astir it. He claimed helium does not and is lone reasoning astir winning the adjacent trophy.

“I don't deliberation astir the Ballon d'Or; I deliberation you'll extremity up severely if you lone deliberation astir that. I deliberation astir winning,” helium said, arsenic quoted by Mirror UK.“Imagine if I triumph the World Cup and the UCL adjacent year, past the Ballon d'Or volition travel by itself. But the astir important happening is to bask football.”

Dembele and Yamal volition conscionable successful the UEFA Nations League semi-final connected Thursday, and the Barcelona prima is assured Spain volition travel retired victorious.

“I americium assured that we [Spain] volition triumph connected Thursday, but whether we triumph oregon not, I would inactive ballot for the champion subordinate successful the world,” helium told COPE."If Thursday doesn’t spell the mode I privation oregon Dembele wants, past what? You’re voting for idiosyncratic other who plays connected Sunday?"I’m the benignant of idiosyncratic who votes for the champion subordinate implicit the full year. But if radical privation to hazard it each connected 1 game, well… we tin play that crippled then.”

Lamine Yamal successful enactment for Barcelona against Inter Milan successful the UEFA Champions League semi-final. Photo by Carl Recine.
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Some of the apical names for the Ballon d'Or are done with their nine seasons, including Mohamed Salah and Barcelona stars.

Real Madrid and PSG volition play successful the expanded FIFA Club World Cup successful the United States of America, giving Dembele and Kylian Mbappe much chances astatine boosting their credentials.

Though helium is the frontrunner, Dembele could bash himself much bully if helium delivers a beardown show astatine the Club World Cup and if PSG spell each the way.

Enrique backs Dembele to triumph Ballon d'Or

Legit.ng reported that Luis Enrique backed Ousmane Dembele to triumph the 2025 Ballon d'Or aft playing a pivotal relation successful helping Paris Saint-Germain triumph the Champions League.

The manager noted that his wide show passim the season, and peculiarly successful the final, wherever helium defended each done and showed leadership.

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