Fifty-nine years on from the first Ballon D'Or Award, at a time when many complain that the global game is becoming asphyxiated by systems, technology, and teams that cancel each other out, two street-style footballers, Ousmane Dembélé and Lamine Yamal -- two men whose body language lies to defenders, whose attacking anarchy makes fans feel volcanic joy and excitement -- have dominated the voting and fought out a thrilling battle to be named the world's best player .

The fact that Dembélé led his team, Paris Saint-Germain , to their first Treble by finally making them European champions, meant he pipped the teenage Catalan genius who now becomes, by two full years, ahead of Ronaldo Nazario, Leo Messi and Gianni Rivera (who were all 20) the youngest ever to reach the Ballon D'Or po

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