{"id":163135,"date":"2025-09-23T09:39:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T09:39:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/163135\/"},"modified":"2025-09-23T09:39:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T09:39:06","slug":"yamals-father-missing-out-on-ballon-dor-biggest-moral-damage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/163135\/","title":{"rendered":"Yamal’s father: Missing out on Ballon d’Or ‘biggest moral damage’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lamine Yamal<\/a>‘s father, Mounir Nasraou, considers his son missing out on the Ballon d’Or award as “the biggest moral damage done to a human being.”<\/p>\n

The Barcelona<\/a> winger came second<\/a> to Paris Saint-Germain<\/a> forward Ousmane Demb\u00e9l\u00e9<\/a> in the Ballon d’Or voting.<\/p>\n

“I think this is the biggest, I won’t say theft, but moral damage done to a human being because I believe Lamine Yamal is the best player in the world by far, by a huge margin,” Nasraou, who attended Monday’s Ballon d’Or gala in Paris, told El Chiringuito TV<\/a> after the event.<\/p>\n

“It’s not because he’s my son but because he’s the best player in the world. I believe there are no rivals. Lamine is Lamine Yamal. Something very strange has happened here. Next year there will be a Spanish Ballon d’Or winner.”<\/p>\n

Demb\u00e9l\u00e9, 28, scored 35 goals in 53 appearances in all competitions for treble-winners PSG, who also won Ligue 1<\/a> and the Coupe de France<\/a> in addition to their first ever Champions League<\/a> trophy.<\/p>\n

Lamine Yamal finished second in the 2025 Ballon d’Or, behind Ousmane Dembele of PSG.\u00a0Jose Breton\/Pics Action\/NurPhoto via Getty Images<\/p>\n

Barcelona president Joan Laporta believes the Champions League was the deciding factor in the Ballon d’Or race.<\/p>\n

Yamal, 18, scored 18 goals in 55 games in all competitions last season as Bar\u00e7a won LaLiga<\/a>, the Spanish Supercopa and the Copa del Rey<\/a>, but lost in the Champions League semifinal to Inter<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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“I think winning the Champions League has had its weight,” Laporta said.<\/a><\/p>\n

“We were hopeful. We had Raphinha<\/a>, Lamine and Pedri<\/a> nominated. In the end, Lamine and Demb\u00e9l\u00e9 were finalists. I’m sure he [Yamal] will achieve it. Time will tell but he’s got great quality.<\/p>\n

“I’m convinced this [finishing second] will only motivate Lamine more. He is a a winner. He has a healthy ambition.”<\/p>\n

The Spain<\/a> international did make history on Monday by becoming the only multiple-time Kopa Trophy winner. Yamal also won the award, which recognises the best player under 21 years old, last year, shortly after helping Spain win the European Championship.<\/p>\n

Lamine Yamal won the men’s Kopa Trophy for a second successive season, becoming the first player to win the award more than once.\u00a0Kristy Sparow – UEFA\/UEFA via Getty Images<\/p>\n

“Lamine’s second Kopa is quite remarkable,” Laporta said. “It’s another recognition; no one has two Kopas.”<\/p>\n

Yamal, who signed a long-term contract in May <\/a>with Barcelona until June 2031, knows what he has to do.<\/p>\n

“I need to keep on working to win other awards in the future,” he said on Monday.<\/a><\/p>\n

Yamal’s agent, Jorge Mendes, meanwhile, has no doubt Yamal has a great future ahead.<\/p>\n

Asked after Monday’s gala about his client finishing second in the voting, he said<\/a>: “Lamine is going to win many Ballon d’Or awards.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lamine Yamal‘s father, Mounir Nasraou, considers his son missing out on the Ballon d’Or award as “the biggest…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":163136,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":["post-163135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-football","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163135\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/163136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}