Ousmane Dembélé wins Ballon d’Or
Ousmane Dembélé won the 2025 Men’s Ballon d’Or while playing for Paris Saint-Germain.
PSG won its first UEFA Champions League in that season, helping bolster his case.
He becomes the second PSG player to win the award. Lionel Messi had previously won the Ballon d’Or while at PSG (in 2021), so Dembélé is first among PSG players born French or from France national team?
A sources frame it as the first ever PSG player in the sense as a “current PSG player” to win with PSG, but Messi’s win also counts since he was playing for PSG.
Some reports say “first PSG player” but that might be shorthand meaning first French PSG player or first PSG player in many years.
