Spanish newspaper: 'The world will be shocked by the winner of the 2025 Golden Ball'

According to Marca newspaper (Spain), global fans will witness a shock when the winner of the 2025 Golden Ball is announced.

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The 2025 Golden Ball award ceremony will begin at 2:00 a.m. on September 23 (Vietnam time) at the Chatelet Theater (Paris, France). This is the 69th time the award is organized by France Football magazine, to honor outstanding individuals, along with the categories of teams, coaches and social contributions for the 2024-2025 season.

At the ceremony, the 2025 Men's Golden Ball award certainly received great attention from fans. The list of candidates for the 2025 Men's Golden Ball includes 30 players, including prominent stars such as Ousmane Dembele (PSG), Kylian Mbappe (Real Madrid), Lamine Yamal (Barca), Mohamed Salah (Liverpool), Raphinha (Barca), Vitinha (PSG). According to the announcement of France Football , the Golden Ball will be selected based on three criteria: individual performance, team performance and fair play. The voting committee is 100 journalists from the top 100 FIFA countries (men) and 50 journalists from the top 50 countries (women). Each journalist will select 10 players, scoring from 15 to 1. The person with the highest total score will win the award.

The 2025 Men's Golden Ball title received great attention from global fans.

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According to Opta , Ousmane Dembele is the number 1 candidate for the 2025 Men's Golden Ball award. In the 2024-2025 season, the French player exploded with 35 goals and 16 assists in 53 matches, helping PSG win all 5 major titles (Champions League, Ligue 1, French Cup, French Super Cup, European Super Cup). In addition, at the beginning of this season, Ousmane Dembele also continued to show high form with a brilliant performance, playing an important role in the scheme that coach Luis Enrique is building at PSG.

However, contrary to Opta , Marca newspaper said that fans will witness a shock when Lamine Yamal is the final winner. Marca 's journalist wrote: "PSG showed destructive form in the 2024-2025 season, with 9 representatives in the top 30 of this year's Golden Ball. But now Lamine Yamal is emerging as the strongest candidate, threatening PSG's dominance in the Golden Ball race. The Barcelona player is the only one who can ruin the party of the French representative. To show his confidence, Lamine Yamal even brought 20 relatives from Spain to France to witness his wonderful moment."

Marca added: “No one dares to make predictions, and France Football will not reveal the winner until the last minute to avoid controversy like last season. Ousmane Dembele, Lamine Yamal or Raphinha? We will certainly witness a big shock tonight."

Ousmane Dembele (red shirt) and Lamine Yamal are among the strong candidates for the 2025 Men's Golden Ball award.

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In addition to the men's Ballon d'Or category, the ceremony in Paris will find the winners of awards such as the Women's Ballon d'Or, Best Goalkeeper (Yashin Trophy), Best Young Player (Kopa Trophy), Top Scorer (Gerd Muller Trophy), Best Coach (Johan Cruyff Trophy), Best Club and the Socrates Award for Social Contribution.

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