France Football magazine revealed the list of players concerned with the competition for the Golden Ball award in its 69th edition, scheduled for its concert on September 22.
It attracts the award for the best attention player, the round witch’s lover every year, as it is one of the finest individual awards in the game since its launch for the first time in 1956.
Manchester City midfielder Ridrigo Caskaneti, “Rodri”, won the title in 2024, beating Brazilian striker Vinicius Junior.
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September, 22nd 2025 pic.twitter.com/ru2ga9isoe– Ballon d’or (@BallONDOR) August 7, 2025
Does Dembele repeat the achievement of the former Ukraine star?
The French world champion, Asman Dembele for the first time in the list that also included eight other names of the European champion Paris Saint -Germain.
The French capital club Real Madrid, who nominated nine of its players in the 2018 edition, was just to receive Croatian Luka Modric, at the time of the dominance of the poles, Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo, which spanned a decade.
Dembele is chasing an exceptional number in the Golden Ball award, as no player has previously won the award from the first nomination.
The statistics put the rooster team player among the most important names for kidnapping the award, without taking into account his victory in the Champions League, which suggested that several winners in the previous editions.
Osman scored 35 goals and made 16 in 53 games he played in all competitions last season, the last of which was the Club World Cup, which reached the final match with the PSG.
9 joueurs du @Psg_inside nommés au @BallONDOR 😎 pic.twitter.com/mopvjpljcj
– Ligue 1 McDonald’s (@Ligue1) August 7, 2025
The “balloon role” regulations changed with the passage of years, as non -Europeans were allowed to achieve them starting in 1995, and the organizing committee issued the law of candidacy after he was choosing the winner of the direct voting system by experts based on their evaluation of the prominent stars.
The Liberian star George Wea won the award at the time, for the first and last African to be crowned.
The top scorer of the Ukrainian Dinamo Kiev, Igor Bilanov, harvested the fruits of his club’s successes and the Soviet Union team in 1986 to outperform the Englishman Gary Linker and Spain’s Emilio Potaginho.
The newspaper “L’Equipe” reported that this version of the Golden Ball is exceptional, the referee that Bilanov did not emerge or circulate his name by the press or experts.
Here are the 2025 Ballon d’or nominees!#Ballondor pic.twitter.com/tehmbu4r0j
– Ballon d’or (@BallONDOR) August 7, 2025
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