At 25, Vitinha, the Paris Saint-Germain midfielder, was named the best midfielder of the year 2025 at the Globe Soccer Awards. This prestigious award recognizes a season of remarkable consistency, marked by his central role at PSG and with the Portuguese national team. He expressed his joy and thanked everyone for this fantastic year.
Vitinha: “The best way to get here is to play for the team.”
“It’s a pleasure to be here, to be rewarded with this award; it means a lot to me. Thank you to everyone at PSG, the president, the coach, my teammates—they were all very important for this—and to the national team as well. To my agent, Jorge Mendes, and most importantly… to my family. It’s an honor to win this award, and I thank everyone.”
“The best way to get here is to play for the team. When you do that, individual talents naturally emerge, which is what I try to do, for the club. And then it happens,” he said, as reported by Paris SG Infos.
This trophy is no accident. It recognizes a patiently constructed trajectory, almost swimming against the current of high-profile football. In Paris, Vitinha never sought to shine alone; he sought to make others play better. And it is precisely this collective approach that propelled him to the top. At Paris Saint-Germain, the Portuguese player became the invisible axis around which everything revolves: tempo, ball distribution, and emotional management during highs and lows.
By reminding everyone that “individual talents emerge when you play for the team,” Vitinha sums up a philosophy that perfectly reflects his development. Global recognition, yes. But above all, validation of intelligent, demanding, and sustainable football. The kind of player who wins much more than matches: time, control, and titles.
