• Bonmat? scoops top honour for third successive year
  • Sarina Wiegman and Hannah Hampton win awards

On a breathlessly glitzy night in Paris, Ousmane Demb?l? won the men?s Ballon d?Or award for the first time. It was a victory that brought the audience in a fever?pitch ? Th??tre du Ch?telet to their feet, reward both for Paris Saint-Germain?s Champions League triumph and Demb?l??s own stellar form since Christmas.
Otherwise it was a night of flowers and gongs for English football in Paris as the women?s game swept the opening half of the ceremony. There were awards for the England head coach, Sarina Wiegman, the England goalkeeper Hannah Hampton and Arsenal, the Champions League winners, as club of the year. Such was the degree of Anglo-dominance in the opening hour there were even scattered boos from the Parisian crowd as Arsenal?s ? players went up to receive their gong.
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