{"id":38575,"date":"2025-09-23T06:49:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T10:49:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/mbappe-and-messi-celebrate-dembeles-ballon-dor\/"},"modified":"2025-09-23T06:49:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T10:49:10","slug":"mbappe-and-messi-celebrate-dembeles-ballon-dor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/soccer\/mbappe-and-messi-celebrate-dembeles-ballon-dor\/","title":{"rendered":"Mbapp\u00e9 and Messi celebrate Demb\u00e9l\u00e9&#8217;s Ballon d&#8217;Or"},"content":{"rendered":"Kylian Mbapp\u00e9 and Lionel Messi expressed their congratulations to their former teammate, Ousmane Demb\u00e9l\u00e9, after being awarded the prestigious Ballon d&#8217;Or.\n\nDemb\u00e9l\u00e9 surpassed Barcelona player Lamine Yamal to win the coveted individual trophy, after a standout season with Paris Saint-Germain.\n\nThe French striker scored 35 goals and provided 14 assists in 53 matches, contributing to PSG winning their first Champions League, as well as Ligue 1 and the Coupe de France.\n\nMbapp\u00e9, who left PSG in the summer of 2024 to join Real Madrid, was one of the first to congratulate his compatriot.\n\nThrough his Instagram account, Mbapp\u00e9 wrote: &#8220;Ousmane Demb\u00e9l\u00e9. What emotion, brother! You deserve it a thousand times.&#8221;\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2025%2F0923%2Fr1549760_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"><\/figure>\n\n\n<em>Ousmane Demb\u00e9l\u00e9 won the 69th Ballon d&#8217;Or ahead of Lamine Yamal from Barcelona.<\/em>\n\nMbapp\u00e9, 26, who has not yet won the Ballon d&#8217;Or, finished in seventh position in this year&#8217;s edition.\n\nMessi, winner of eight Ballon d&#8217;Ors, was also enthusiastic to see Demb\u00e9l\u00e9 receive the recognition.\n\nMessi, who shared a locker room with Demb\u00e9l\u00e9 for four seasons at Barcelona before signing for PSG in 2021, left a message in Spanish on Demb\u00e9l\u00e9&#8217;s Instagram post, expressing: &#8220;Great Ous! Congratulations, I&#8217;m very happy for you. You deserve it!&#8221;\n\nDemb\u00e9l\u00e9, who joined PSG in 2023, mentioned his former Bar\u00e7a teammate during his acceptance speech.\n\nThe player expressed: &#8220;I learned a lot there [in Barcelona], playing alongside players like Messi and Iniesta. It was a great learning experience. I am very happy when I see the list of legends who have won this award.&#8221;","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kylian Mbapp\u00e9 and Lionel Messi expressed their congratulations to their former teammate, Ousmane Demb\u00e9l\u00e9, after being awarded the prestigious Ballon d&#8217;Or. Demb\u00e9l\u00e9 surpassed Barcelona player Lamine Yamal to win the coveted individual trophy, after a standout season with Paris Saint-Germain. The French striker scored 35 goals and provided 14 assists in 53 matches, contributing to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38576,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2549,253,3188,706],"class_list":{"0":"post-38575","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-ballon-dor","9":"tag-mbappe","10":"tag-ousmane-dembele","11":"tag-psg"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38575\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}