Ousmane Dembele has been named the Champions League Participant of the Season for 2024-25, having helped Paris Saint-Germain to their first European crown.
Dembele loved a powerful marketing campaign as PSG received the treble, with Luis Enrique’s aspect following up their Ligue 1 and Coupe de France successes by routing Inter 5-0 in Saturday’s Champions League closing.
That’s the most complete margin of victory ever recorded in a European Cup/Champions League closing, and although Dembele didn’t get on the scoresheet, he did handle assists for Need Doue and Khvicha Kvaratskhelia.
That made him the primary participant to offer two assists in a Champions League closing since Marcelo for Actual Madrid in 2018, in Los Blancos’ 3-1 win over Liverpool.
In the meantime, his 14 purpose involvements on this season’s competitors (eight objectives, six assists) are the second-most by a French participant in a single marketing campaign, after Karim Benzema had 17 for Madrid in 2021-22.
Benzema received the Ballon d’Or off the again of that haul, and Luis Enrique said on Saturday that Dembele additionally deserves to be topped the world’s finest participant.
Dembele did land one other prize on Sunday, with UEFA’s technical observer group – which incorporates Gareth Southgate, Rafa Benitez, Roberto Martinez and different coaches and former gamers – naming him the excellent participant of the event.
“In addition to his eight objectives, Dembele has taken on the position of a frontrunner within the Paris Saint-Germain group, as we noticed within the closing with how he labored so laborious, urgent from the entrance,” the group’s report stated.
“On prime of that, he created doubts for his or her opponents match after match together with his intelligent motion, dropping deep to offer his group superiority within the midfield.”
Solely Barcelona’s Raphinha (13 objectives, eight assists) and Borussia Dortmund striker Serhou Guirassy (13 objectives, 4 assists) bettered Dembele’s 14 purpose involvements within the 2024-25 event.
Solely Zlatan Ibrahimovic, with 10 in 2013-14, has ever scored extra objectives for PSG in a single Champions League event.
Dembele’s team-mate Doue, who on Saturday turned the primary participant to ever document three purpose involvements in a Champions League closing, received UEFA’s Younger Participant of the Season award.
Doue – on the age of 19 years and 362 days – turned simply the third teenager to attain in a Champions League closing, after Patrick Kluivert in 1995 (for Ajax v AC Milan) and Carlos Alberto in 2004 (for Porto v Monaco), with one other 19-year-old attacker, Senny Mayulu, scoring PSG’s fifth purpose.
Each Dembele and Doue had been named within the Champions League Staff of the Season, with Vitinha, Achraf Hakimi, Nuno Mendes, Marquinhos and Gianluigi Donnarumma finishing the PSG contingent.
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Inter centre-back Alessandro Bastoni and Arsenal midfielder Declan Rice additionally made the reduce, whereas Barcelona wingers Raphinha and Lamine Yamal had been included after their semi-final exit.
Yamal additionally received the Objective of the Season award for his solo run and curled end within the first leg of Barca’s basic semi-final tie versus Inter.
