Dembele is the leading candidate for the 2025 Ballon d'Or award - Photo: REUTERS
After a turbulent season of European football, the candidates for the 2025 Ballon d'Or have gradually emerged.
According to experts, there are currently 5 potential candidates for the Golden Ball award. They are Ousmane Dembele, Ferreira Vitinha (PSG), Lamine Yamal, Raphinha (Barca) and Mohamed Salah (Liverpool).
Dembele and Vitinha's race
It is worth mentioning that of the five names mentioned above, Lamine Yamal, Raphinha and Mohamed Salah will not be participating in the 2025 FIFA Club World Cup.
That means these three stars will not have any extra "plus points" in the race for the Golden Ball.
Thus, the race for the 2025 Golden Ball title has invisibly become a one-on-one match between Ousmane Dembele and Ferreira Vitinha.
Both played impressively for PSG and helped the French capital team win a historic treble (Champions League, Ligue 1 and French Cup).
Vitinha needs the FIFA Club World Cup to break away in the Golden Ball race - Photo: REUTERS
Although Dembele and Vitinha's achievements are the same, experts are placing the French player's chances of winning the Golden Ball higher. The reason is that Dembele has scored quite a lot of goals and created assists, directly contributing to PSG's great achievements.
On the other hand, Vitinha's role, although very important, is often forgotten because the Portuguese player plays quite quietly. However, after the Portuguese team won the Nations League, Vitinha and Dembele's chances of winning the Golden Ball are now almost equal.
And the 2025 FIFA Club World Cup will be an opportunity for both to break through, deciding who deserves to be the owner of the 2025 Golden Ball.
Waiting for the comeback
Mbappe has a slim hope of competing for the 2025 Golden Ball if he plays well at the 2025 Club World Cup - Photo: REUTERS
After Dembele and Vitinha are other potential candidates for the Golden Ball award such as Kylian Mbappe (Real Madrid), Khvicha Kvaratskhelia, Gianluigi Donnarumma, Desire Doue, Achraf Hakim (PSG), Lautaro Martinez (Inter Milan)...
The question now is whether the 2025 FIFA Club World Cup can help these players turn the tide in the race for the Golden Ball? The answer is nothing is impossible.
However, the group of players Kvaratskhelia, Donnarumma, Doue, Hakim will find it difficult to break out and create an overthrow because their success or failure is linked to each other. Not to mention that if PSG wins the championship, the two leading candidates Dembele and Vitinha will also have similar plus points.
If there is a breakthrough, it will come from players from other clubs such as Mbappe (Real Madrid) or Martinez (Inter).
Mbappe, despite having just gone through a trophyless season with Real Madrid, still won the Spanish Championship's top scorer title. Martinez also won the Italian Championship's top scorer title in similar circumstances.
Overall, Mbappe and Martinez's performance last season was not too bad. They were only behind Dembele or Vitinha in terms of collective championship glory.
But the Ballon d'Or vote could change direction if Mbappe and Martinez shine brightly at the 2025 FIFA Club World Cup. Regarding this possibility, experts believe that Mbappe has enough basis to explode more than Martinez.
In terms of strength and determination, Real Madrid is showing stronger than Inter Milan. Moreover, besides Mbappe, there are many more excellent satellites than what Marinez is supported at Inter Milan.
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