{"id":8635,"date":"2025-06-01T12:51:59","date_gmt":"2025-06-01T16:51:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/doue-beats-yamal-psg-young-star-wins-champions-league-award\/"},"modified":"2025-06-01T12:51:59","modified_gmt":"2025-06-01T16:51:59","slug":"doue-beats-yamal-psg-young-star-wins-champions-league-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/soccer\/doue-beats-yamal-psg-young-star-wins-champions-league-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Dou\u00e9 Beats Yamal: PSG Young Star Wins Champions League Award"},"content":{"rendered":"Paris Saint-Germain winger D\u00e9sir\u00e9 Dou\u00e9 beat out Barcelona&#8217;s Lamine Yamal to win the Champions League Young Player of the Season award. This, after scoring two goals in his team&#8217;s 5-0 final victory over Inter Milan on Saturday.\n\nBoth teenagers, considered among the best young players in world football, were included in the team of the season.\n\nDou\u00e9, 19, capped off an impressive campaign by setting up the opening goal in the final for Achraf Hakimi before scoring two goals.\n\nThe PSG had seven players in the competition&#8217;s team of the season, while Inter, the finalist, only had one.\n\nOusmane Demb\u00e9l\u00e9 of PSG was awarded the UEFA Player of the Season award on Sunday, after his season culminated in a significant role in his team&#8217;s victory in the competition for the first time.\n\n<p>Demb\u00e9l\u00e9 struggled at the beginning of the campaign, being benched by coach Luis Enrique for a league phase match against Arsenal for disciplinary reasons, but the 28-year-old scored eight goals in the Champions League after switching to a more central role.<\/p>\n\n<p>Although Demb\u00e9l\u00e9 did not score in Saturday&#8217;s final in Munich, the coach highlighted his performance.<\/p>\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>I would give the Ballon d&#8217;Or to Mr. Ousmane Demb\u00e9l\u00e9. The way he defended tonight, that alone could be worth the Ballon d&#8217;Or. That&#8217;s how you lead a team. Goals, trophies, leadership, defense, his pressure.<\/p><cite>Luis Enrique<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Champions League Team of the Season:<\/h2>\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><b>Goalkeeper:<\/b> Gianluigi Donnarumma (PSG)<\/li><li><b>Defenders:<\/b> Achraf Hakimi (PSG), Marquinhos (PSG), Alessandro Bastoni (Inter), Nuno Mendes (PSG)<\/li><li><b>Midfielders:<\/b> Vitinha (PSG), Declan Rice (Arsenal)<\/li><li><b>Forwards:<\/b> Lamine Yamal (Barcelona), D\u00e9sir\u00e9 Dou\u00e9 (PSG), Ousmane Demb\u00e9l\u00e9 (PSG), Raphinha (Barcelona)<\/li><\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paris Saint-Germain winger D\u00e9sir\u00e9 Dou\u00e9 beat out Barcelona&#8217;s Lamine Yamal to win the Champions League Young Player of the Season award. This, after scoring two goals in his team&#8217;s 5-0 final victory over Inter Milan on Saturday. Both teenagers, considered among the best young players in world football, were included in the team of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8636,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[270,1426,3188,706],"class_list":{"0":"post-8635","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-champions-league","9":"tag-lamine-yamal","10":"tag-ousmane-dembele","11":"tag-psg"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8635","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=8635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8635\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}