Lames awarded again as best young man. The blue at bis after 2021: “Happy”
It is the golden ball of Ousmano dembélé, who beat the ferocious competition of Lamine Yamal. It is the triumph of Gianluigi Donnarumma, now at Manchester City, but best goalkeeper in the world, and ninth among the candidates of the France Football Award, thanks to the last protagonist vintage in Paris. And on the podium there was also Vitinha, third, the PSG engine of Luis Enrique, awarded as the best coach. In short, last night, at the Chatelet Theater, in the heart of the French capital, the Club of the Emir of Qatar was mainly celebrated, also awarded as the best of the football elite. And that in May he finally realized the great dream of the sovereign of Doha to raise the first Champions League, just when he decided to give up the great stars, focusing on the collective, from which to bring out the best players. Like Dembélé, in tears on stage embracing the mother: “It has never been a goal to win the golden ball, but I am happy and it is above all a collective prize,” said number 10.
Excluding
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Rodri’s heir is the symbol of a team built according to the precepts of Lucho who has abolished every privilege, denying the permanent place to anyone, demanding from every player Massimo Sacrifica and Polyvalence. The statistics accompany the triumph of the Parisian playmaker. In 52 overall appearances, the French made 35 goals, one every one hundred minutes, and 16 assists. But these numbers do not tell the new dembélé blossomed paradoxically by an exclusion, when last autumn Luis Enrique decided not to take him away to the field of Arsenal because it is reticent to the new course of one for everyone. Strong decision that, beyond the 2-0 defeat, shook the locker room showing that no one is above the team. Not even Dembélé, in fact, the only one able to make the difference in an attack that in two years has lost first Messi and Neymar and then Mbappé.
Flight
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A message well received by the person concerned that from January onwards turned into the leader of a department not only without great stars, but also of a real center forward. A system that enhanced the skills of Dembélé starting with the cathartic evening with Manchester City, from inside or outside. His goal that started the comeback from 0-2 to 4-2. And from there it was all a high altitude flight, with a hat-trick in Stuttgart, brace at the Brest in the play-offs, the resistance network in Anfield, in the round of 16, before the decisive parades of Donnarumma with penalties. Without forgetting the goal full of personal revenge to break down the Arsenal, to the Emrates, in the semifinal. And of course the various assists, two of which in a final overflow with Inter (5-0).
Duckling
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The first to embrace Dembélé, while the stadium choirs in the room and the fireworks of the Parisian ultras led out, was Donnarumma, again the best in the world. The Yashin Prize, Gigio had already raised it in 2021, in the first year by Parisian and thanks above all to the triumph in the European championship with Italy. This time, the blue was awarded for its performances that allowed the PSG to win the Champions League. The first for the Parisian club. The first for Donnarumma, now at Manchester City, but who had chosen Paris for this goal. The trophy handed him the chief delegation of Italy, Gianluigi Buffon, another ex of the PSG, who also congratulated an affectionate slap on the nape of his heir. “I am very happy with my performances of the past season -underlined Donnarumma -, together with my former companions we have achieved incredible results. It is also thanks to them and my family that I am here. Now I am focused on the City, with which I hope to win so much again”.
Podium
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Gigio imposed himself in front of Alisson of Liverpool and the Nerazzurri Sommer. And also to Chevalier, his successor who, however, while the Italian was rewarded in Paris, made the PSG lose in Marseille with a duck on the goal of Aguerd’s match. Yamal, on the other hand, returned home again with the best young man’s award. The best player remains the other Blaugrana Bonmati: third year in a row. As only Messi and Platini in the past.
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