
Tributes from some of the world’s best players poured in as Ousmane Dembele won the 2025 Ballon d’Or.
Lionel Messi and Kylian Mbappe, two of Dembele’s former team-mates, congratulated the France forward on the accolade as he was crowned the world’s best men’s player, pipping Barcelona’s Lamine Yamal to the prize.