How much money will Ousmane Dembélé receive after receiving the 2025 Ballon d'Or as best player? This is the trophy's value.

Frenchman Ousmane Dembélé , Paris Saint-Germain striker, was awarded the 2025 Ballon d'Or by the French publication France Football on Monday at an event held at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris.

Dembele was ahead of Barcelona striker Lamine Yamal and his teammate Vitinha in the award classification.

The 28-year-old Frenchman shone brightly and was instrumental in Paris Saint-Germain's outstanding season, contributing decisively to winning Ligue 1, the French Cup, the Champions League, and the European Super Cup.

The PSG striker is the sixth player from his country to win the Ballon d'Or, after Raymond Kopa (1958), Michel Platini (1983, 1984 and 1985), Jean-Pierre Papin (1991), Zinedine Zidane (1998) and Karim Benzema (2022).

The statuette is valued at approximately $3,500, which is equivalent to 13,485,325 Colombian pesos at the TRM (Representative Market Rate) on the day this article was published. Although it is not made of pure gold, it has great value beyond its economic value for the players.

However, Dembélé will not receive any cash as part of the prize, as the organization is awarding the trophy without any direct monetary compensation.

The PSG player is 28 years old, but at the age of 6 he was singled out as one of the greatest talents in French football . He hails from Normandy, where he grew up in a deprived neighborhood on the outskirts of Évreux, surrounded by housing blocks housing modest families.

The son of a Senegalese father who was not always present and raised by his mother of Mauritanian origin, Ousmane Dembélé discovered his passion for football at a young age, spending hours kicking the ball against the walls of the La Madeleine neighborhood.

At 13, he joined the training center of Rennes , the most important club in neighboring Brittany, owned by the Pinault family, one of the wealthiest in France. Despite his youth, he made the risky decision to leave his family and follow a path that many advised against.

Shortly afterwards, his mother and four younger siblings moved with him to Rennes, accompanying him at the beginning of his rise.

With Philippe Montanier as coach, he made his first-team debut in 2015, at the age of 17. In just over a season, he was already attracting the attention of Europe's biggest clubs, and in 2016 he forced his way out to Borussia Dortmund. A year later, amid the uproar surrounding Neymar's departure, Barcelona paid €105 million to sign him, making him, for a few days, the most expensive French player in history, until PSG paid €150 million for Kylian Mbappé, with whom his career has been constantly linked.

With the French national team, the two teams' careers took different paths: while Mbappé was instrumental in the 2018 World Cup victory, Dembélé barely played a role. A similar story occurred at Barcelona, ​​where his inconsistency and distant nature limited his impact, although under Xavi Hernández, he managed to make himself indispensable.

At that point, he opted to sign for PSG, where he initially lived under Mbappé's shadow, allowing him to adapt without much pressure. After his compatriot's departure, Luis Enrique placed him as a center forward , a move that led to the best season of his career and culminated in the long-awaited Champions League title, a goal the Qatari owners have pursued since 2011.

Dembélé, considered for years an incomplete promise, had a brilliant year that catapulted him to a Ballon d'Or, considered controversial by many, but which enshrines the career of a footballer who must now prove he can sustain himself at the elite level.

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