Dembélé shares how he moved the world at the Ballon d’Or | OneFootball

Ousmane Dembélé (28 years old), forward for Paris Saint-Germain, spoke to GQ about his speech at the Ballon d’Or, a moment that deeply moved the audience. The French international admitted that he hadn’t prepared anything, letting emotion and years of sacrifice speak for themselves. His account sheds new light on his triumph and his journey in Paris.

In his interview with GQ, Ousmane Dembélé recounts his crowning moment as one would tell a life story: unfiltered, with the spontaneity that defines him. The Paris Saint-Germain winger insists that his now-viral speech came “from the heart,” as if the moment swept him away. Nothing was written, but everything rang true: the weight of accumulated work, the often invisible sacrifices, and the feeling that football was finally giving back everything it had taken from him.

Dembélé especially describes a widely shared feeling: that of a player who had long been under scrutiny, sometimes judged too quickly, and who finally managed to tell his own story. His Ballon d’Or, the result of a full season and a consistency finally found, symbolizes this intimate victory over doubt.

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