Ousmane Dembélé

Paris Saint-Germain · France

Ousmane Dembélé is a French professional footballer, born on 15 May 1997. He plays as a forward and right winger for Paris Saint-Germain in Ligue 1 and for the France national team. Wikipedia lists him among the eleven players who have won the World Cup, the Champions League and the Ballon d'Or during their careers.

France Football awarded Dembélé the 2025 Ballon d'Or, ranking him No. 1 with 1,380 points, and he is again on the 30-man shortlist for 2026. The IFFHS, The Guardian, Bleacher Report and Sports Illustrated (Español) also put him first in their 2025 lists, while FourFourTwo ranked him No. 4. Sports Illustrated (Español) called 2025 his year of "redención absoluta" (total redemption), describing how under Luis Enrique he turned into the most dominant attacking force in Europe.

Dembélé started at Rennes, where he was Ligue 1 Young Player of the Year, then won the DFB-Pokal with Borussia Dortmund before Barcelona signed him in 2017 for an initial €105 million. In Spain he collected three La Liga titles, two Copas del Rey and two Spanish Super Cups. After joining PSG in 2023 he scored 33 goals with 15 assists in 49 games in 2024–25 as the club won a continental treble, and he was named Ligue 1 Player of the Year and Champions League Player of the Season. With France he won the 2018 World Cup and was in the squads for Euro 2020, the 2022 and 2026 World Cups and Euro 2024.

Sources of this text: Wikipedia · France Football / L'Équipe · IFFHS · The Guardian · Bleacher Report · Sports Illustrated (Español) · FourFourTwo

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