Overview:
Haitian soccer star Melchie Dumornay has been named considered one of 5 finalists for the 2025 Globe Soccer Awards’ finest girls’s participant honor. The OL Lyonnes midfielder joins a choose group of high worldwide gamers in competition for the worldwide accolade. Beforehand, Dumornay ranked 18th in France Soccer’s Ballon d’Or and eleventh in FIFA’s The Greatest awards, regardless of profitable Concacaf Ladies’s Participant of the Yr in each 2024 and 2025.
Melchie “Corventina” Dumornay has been named one of many 5 finalists for the 2025 Globe Soccer Awards’ Greatest Ladies’s Participant, marking the primary time the Haitian star has reached the highest 5 of a significant international particular person award.
The winner will probably be introduced Dec. 28 in Dubai.
The 22-year-old OL Lyonnes midfielder joins a shortlist dominated by European stars: Spain’s Aitana Bonmatí, the reigning Globe Soccer winner and two-time Ballon d’Or recipient; fellow Spaniards Mariona Caldentey and Alexia Putellas; and England worldwide Alessia Russo.
Followers in Haiti and throughout the diaspora celebrated the milestone, seeing Dumornay’s nomination as a uncommon vibrant spot for the nation on the worldwide sports activities stage, together with the lads’s workforce’s qualification for the 2026 FIFA World Cup.
“Congratulations!” Marguerite Mompoint-Etienne wrote on Facebook. “So pleased with you. At the very least we now have one thing to point out the world. We aren’t all criminals, as they label us to be. First, we certified for the world and now [this].”
Mompoint-Etienne added: “Proceed to point out the world that when upon a time we had been ‘La Perle des Antilles’, we’ll get the title again within the title of Jesus of Nazareth.”
A breakthrough, with tempered expectations
Dumornay’s Globe Soccer nomination stands out for putting her alongside among the recreation’s most embellished gamers, regardless of restricted worldwide appearances this 12 months.
She had her most efficient and impactful 12 months up to now. She scored in 4 consecutive Champions League matches to assist OL Lyonnes attain the semifinals and was the joint high scorer in France’s high division, D1 Arkema. She was additionally named the Champions League Younger Participant of the Season and Concacaf Participant of the Yr. It was her second time profitable the accolade.
Nonetheless, the 22-year-old completed in 18th place within the France Soccer Ballon d’Or rankings. Analysts stated Dumornay was ranked exterior the highest 10 regardless of a standout season in Europe, largely as a result of an absence of aggressive matches with Haiti. Les Grenadières didn’t take part in any main tournaments in 2025. The restricted worldwide play additionally impacted her rating within the Greatest FIFA Ladies’s Participant vote, the place she completed eleventh.
The 21-year-old midfield star joins the world’s high 30 gamers, giving Haiti a second of worldwide soccer glory
Some followers additionally stay skeptical about her possibilities of profitable.
“She deserves it, however we already understand how politics work,” wrote Instagram person Benjamin Joas, echoing a sentiment shared by many supporters.
Based in 2010, the Globe Soccer Awards honor high gamers, golf equipment and executives throughout males’s and girls’s soccer. Remaining winners are chosen via a mixture of public voting and a jury that features former stars Ian Rush, Eric Abidal, Iker Casillas and Francesco Totti, in addition to Manchester Metropolis CEO Ferran Soriano.
Bonmatí received the ladies’s award final 12 months. This 12 months’s ceremony may also acknowledge the very best males’s participant, coach, membership, rising participant and sporting director.
For Dumornay, the nomination alone represents a historic step — and one other marker of her regular rise from Mirebalais to the best ranges of world soccer.