A major candidate for the Ballon d'Or 2025, Ousmane Dembélé had a fantastic season with the Champions League to the key, which could make him the sixth French to win the Supreme Individual Distinction after Kopa, Platini, Papin, Zidane and Benzema. However, it is not really acclaimed by France, like a Lamine Yamal in Spain or Messi and Ronaldo in their time by Portugal and Argentina. A situation deplored by former Lyonnais Karl Toko-Ekambi.
“Lamine Yamal is Spanish, and the Spaniards still face their player, they put you at the very top. 100%. In France, we only criticize our players. Ousmane Dembélé, we should all be behind him, but we spend our time finding faults. If there is a debate between Lamine Yamal and Dembélé for the Ballon d'Or, it is because we in France, we are not all behind Dembélé. Do you think in Spain, if Dembélé is doing this season, is there debate? If there were Messi or Cristiano in place of Dembélé there would be no debate. I even think, in my opinion, that it bothers the French that Dembélé wins the Ballon d'Or before Mbappé »explained the former Lyonnais winger and Angevin in a live Twitch of the Streamer Ange Gr.
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