Only one Italian player, PSG's Gianluigi Donnarumma, is among the 30 nominees for the 2025 Ballon d'Or, which will be awarded on September 22nd in Paris. Three players play for Serie A clubs: Napoli's Scott McTominay and the Inter Milan duo of Denzel Dumfries and Lautaro Martínez.
There are nine candidates who play for the European champion PSG : Nuno Mendes, Hakimi, Doué, Dembélé, João Neves, Fabián Ruiz, Vitinha, Kvaratskhelia and, indeed, Donnarumma.
This is the list of 30 nominees for the 2025 Ballon d'Or, revealed today by France Football:
- Jude Bellingham (England, Real Madrid);
- Ousmane Dembélé (France, PSG);
- Gianluigi Donnarumma (Italy, PSG);
- Désiré Doué (France, PSG);
- Denzel Dumfries (Holland, Inter);
- Serhou Guirassy (Guinea, Borussia Dortmund);
- Viktor Gyökeres (Sweden, Sporting CP-Arsenal);
- Erling Haaland (Norway, Manchester City);
- Achraf Hakimi (Morocco, PSG);
- Harry Kane (England, Bayern Munich);
- Khvicha Kvaratskhelia (Georgia, Napoli-PSG);
- Robert Lewandowski (Poland, Barcelona);
- Alexis Mac Allister (Argentina, Liverpool);
- Lautaro Martínez (Argentina, Inter);
- Kylian Mbappé (France, Real Madrid);
- Scott McTominay (Scotland, Naples);
- Nuno Mendes (Portugal, PSG);
- João Neves (Portugal, PSG);
- Michael Olise (France, Bayern Munich);
- Cole Palmer (England, Chelsea);
- Pedri (Spain, Barcelona);
- Raphinha (Brazil, Barcelona);
- Declan Rice (England, Arsenal),
- Fabián Ruiz (Spain, PSG);
- Mohamed Salah (Egypt, Liverpool);
- Virgil van Dijk (Netherlands, Liverpool);
- Vinícius Júnior (Brazil, Real Madrid);
- Florian Wirtz (Germany, Bayer Leverkusen-Liverpool),
- Vitinha (Portugal, PSG);
- Lamine Yamal (Spain, Barcelona).
(Unioneonline)
