Net Worth: | $35 Million |
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Date of Birth: | May 15, 1997 (27 years old) |
Gender: | Male |
Profession: | Soccer Player |
Nationality: | Vernon, France |
What is Ousmane Dembélé’s Net Worth and Salary?
Ousmane Dembélé is a French soccer player who has a net worth of $35 million. He earns a whopping $14 million as an annual salary.
Dembélé plays for a French national club; La Liga club in Barcelona.
Childhood
On May 15, 1997, Masour Ousmane Dembélé was born in Vernon, Eure in France’s Normandy region. His father is Malian, while his mother is Mauritanian-Senegalese.
When he was 11 years old, he moved to the adjacent town of Evreux to join a team where he eventually kickstarted his footballing career.
He first represented ALM Evreux and afterward Evreux FC 27. Coaches instantly recognized his abilities and told him that if he concentrated, he could play professionally.
Career
At the age of 17, in 2014’s Championnat de France Amateur, Dembélé made his professional debut with Rennes’ reserve team. A few months later, he scored the first goal of his professional career.
In 18 games, Dembélé scored 13 goals in his first season.
Dembélé replaced a fellow team player for the final five minutes of a match against Angers in Rennes’ inaugural Ligue 1 encounter in November 2015, marking his professional debut.
He scored against Bordeaux a few weeks later for his first Ligue 1 goal. A young Cristiano Ronaldo, who started his career at a similar age as Dembélé, was mentioned in comparison to Dembélé by the Rennes sporting director.
Dembélé committed to a five-year deal beginning in July 2016 with the German club Borussia Dortmund. During the club’s victory over another German team in August, he made his first appearance in the team.
In September 2016, when the match against VfL Wolfsburg was played, he scored his first goal for the team and eventually scored his first Champions League goal against Legia Warsaw in November 2016.
Dembélé provided a crucial assist in an important goal that helped Dortmund advance to the cup finals in April 2017. He scored the game’s first goal in the finals match in May of 2017, and the team went on to win the 2017 DFB-Pokal Final against Eintracht Frankfurt to earn their first major championship in five years.
Dembélé was honored as “Man of the Match” for his outstanding performance. He however won the league’s “Rookie of the Season” honor and was included in the Bundesliga’s “Team of the Season” following the conclusion of the campaign.
It was revealed in August 2017 that Barcelona had struck an agreement to sign Dembélé to a five-year, 105 million euro contract plus a rumored 40 million euro add-on.
He was also released from Dortmund’s current contract as part of the agreement. Dembélé and Paul Pogba were jointly the second most expensive players after all payments were made.
At the 68-minute mark of Barcelona’s victory over Espanyol in September 2017, Dembélé made his club debut. A week later, he made his first league start, and it was then he sustained a hamstring injury, which caused him to miss six months of play.
For the remainder of the season, he was away from the team. Subsequently, in October 2020, Dembélé finally returned to the team and eventually made a good performance in the first Champions League with one goal for Juventus.
Dembélé competes for France’s national team in addition to professional club competitions. In a game against Italy that France won, he made his debut for the country that month.
In a game against England in June 2017, he scored his first career goal for his country. He received a request in May 2018 to join the French team traveling to Russia for the 2018 FIFA World Cup.
Controversy
Dembélé is an avid fan of the Premier League team Leeds United.
Dembélé and colleague Antoine Griezmann were the only two people Dembélé was arguing with over racism in July 2021. They were shown on a video together in a hotel room where they had called a repairman to fix their television.
The technicians were Asian, and Dembélé can be heard making a number of derogatory comments about them, including remarking on the language and the nation they were from.
In his apology for the video, Dembélé made it clear that he wasn’t intentionally racist and was merely being disrespectful.
Personal Relationship
Dembélé wed Rima Edbouche in a conventional Moroccan ceremony in December 2021. Rima was raised in France but is originally from Morocco. On TikTok, she enjoys a sizable fan base.
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