Overview

• Ousmane Dembélé capped a 35-goal season by leading PSG to a Champions League-centered treble, which club and league figures say weighed heavily with voters.
• Lamine Yamal finished second, collected the Silver Ball, and became the first player to retain the Kopa Trophy, responding with a public message vowing to keep working.
• France Football’s Vincent Garcia said Dembélé won clearly across continents and indicated detailed ballot totals will be published this weekend.
• Yamal’s father, Mounir Nasraoui, condemned the outcome as “moral damage,” calling the result “very strange” and predicting his son will win next year.
• La Liga president Javier Tebas suggested voters steered the 18-year-old toward the Kopa category due to his age, while Barcelona’s Joan Laporta pointed to PSG’s Champions League triumph as decisive.