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Ousmane Dembélé joins elite club with Messi and Ronaldo after winning FIFA The Best and Ballon d’Or in 2025
After claiming the FIFA The Best and Ballon d’Or in 2025, Ousmane Dembélé has now joined an elite club with Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo.
Lionel Messi completed the most dominant individual season in the history of Major League Soccer (MLS). The Argentine star led Inter Miami to championship glory, simultaneously being crowned as the Most Valuable Player (MVP) of the regular season, winner of the Golden Boot, and best player of the final.
Messi becomes the sixth player in MLS history to win MVP and a championship in the same season. Of the previous five, only Atlanta United's Josef Martinez in 2018 won MVP, a title and the Golden Boot as the league's scoring champion all in the same year, another hat trick of sorts that Messi achieved in 2025.