Again-to-back… in back-to-back?
The 2025-2026 membership season got here to an finish this Saturday night, with triumphing within the Champions League as soon as once more.
With the World Cup kicking off in precisely ten days, and with it trying set to be vastly vital within the race for the 2026 Ballon d’Or, OneFootball brings you an replace on the battle for the final word particular person prize forward of the ultimate second of reality!
Who may have imagined, final December, that Ousmane Dembélé, the reigning Ballon d’Or holder, would discover himself among the many favorites, ten days earlier than the beginning of the World Cup, for the 2026 award?
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PSG’s quantity 10 has simply put collectively 5 distinctive months with the membership, clearly highlighted by that historic Champions League double.
Ousmane Dembélé this yr is: one purpose within the first leg of the spherical of 16 towards , a brace within the second leg of the quarter-final at Anfield, three objectives towards throughout the two-legged semi-final, and a purpose within the ultimate.
Stable.
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/ Portugal & PSG 🌟🌟
Third within the 2025 Ballon d’Or, Vitinha can logically purpose for a good higher end in 2026 after this new Champions League title.
Think about Portugal successful the World Cup, then it will be laborious to see PSG’s quantity 17 not lifting the trophy.
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/ France & Bayern Munich 🌟🌟
With 22 objectives scored and 26 assists delivered for Bayern Munich this season, Michael Olise fairly probably has essentially the most full statistical report of the 2025-2026 marketing campaign.
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If the French diamond produces an all-time nice 2026 World Cup, Bayern Munich’s semi-final failure within the Champions League may nicely fade into the background…
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/ England & Bayern Munich 🌟🌟
It is a pretty related story for Harry Kane.
With 61 objectives scored and 7 assists offered for Bayern this season, the English striker is inevitably among the many favorites for the 2026 Ballon d’Or.
An England triumph and some objectives on the World Cup would very possible ship Harry Kane to the highest of world soccer!
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If Lamine Yamal needs to assert the 2026 Ballon d’Or, there isn’t a various: he might want to produce a le-gen-da-ry 2026 World Cup!
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Barcelona’s quarter-final elimination within the Champions League presently makes a coronation for the Spanish wonderkid unimaginable.
However the World Cup can change every part!
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Like Yamal, Kylian Mbappé’s membership season won’t be sufficient for him to get his fingers on the holy grail.
For Kyks, there is no selection: he must depart all of it on the market this summer time on the World Cup!
And that works out nicely, as a result of in simply two appearances, Mbappé has already etched his title eternally into the historical past of this legendary competitors.
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One other all-time nice World Cup and the Ballon d’Or may begin coming severely into view…
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This text was translated into English by Synthetic Intelligence.