Ousmane Dembélé and Aitana ­Bonmatí win Ballon d’Or awards: 'I wasn't planning on crying'

Paris Saint-Germain's Ousmane Dembélé won his first Ballon d'Or and Barcelona's Aitana Bonmatí claimed her third successive award on a glitzy night in Paris.
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Dembélé succeeded the Manchester City midfielder Rodri to become the sixth Frenchman to win it after Raymond Kopa, Michel Platini, Jean-Pierre Papin, Zinedine Zidane and Karim Benzema. Bonmatí won a domestic treble with Barcelona and also reached the Champions League and women's European Championship final this summer where she was named the player of the tournament.

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