{"id":122902,"date":"2019-06-02T10:20:11","date_gmt":"2019-06-02T09:20:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=122902"},"modified":"2019-06-02T10:20:33","modified_gmt":"2019-06-02T09:20:33","slug":"van-dijk-reveals-player-that-should-win-ballon-d-or-after-winning-champions-league-trophy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=122902","title":{"rendered":"Van Dijk reveals player that should win Ballon d\u2019 Or after winning Champions League trophy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1]<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/arewa.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Van-Dijk-reveals-player-that-should-win-Ballon-d\u2019-Or-after-winning-Champions-League-trophy.jpeg\"><\/p>\n<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">Liverpool star, Virgil van Dijk, has backed Barcelona captain, Lionel Messi to win this year\u2019s Ballon d\u2019 Or.<\/p>\n<p>Van Dijk believes the Argentine captain should win the 2019 Ballon d\u2019 Or because he is the \u2018best player\u2019 in the world.<\/p>\n<p>The defender stated this after Liverpool defeated Tottenham Hotspur 2-0 in the Champions League final on Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p>Goals from Mohamed Salah and Divock Origi ensured Jurgen Klopp\u2019s side won the Champions League ahead of Tottenham.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think Messi is the best player in the world. He should win the Ballon d\u2019Or,\u201d Van Dijk was quoted by Goal as telling reporters in Madrid after Liverpool\u2019s win over Tottenham.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo I\u2019m not thinking of that. But if I win, I\u2019ll take it. Messi should win it though. He is the best in the world, whether he\u2019s in the final or not.\u201d\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Liverpool star, Virgil van Dijk, has backed Barcelona captain, Lionel Messi to win this year\u2019s Ballon d\u2019 Or. Van Dijk believes the Argentine captain should win the 2019 Ballon d\u2019 Or because he is the \u2018best player\u2019 in the world. The defender stated this after Liverpool defeated Tottenham Hotspur 2-0 in the Champions League [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":122903,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[3367,12301],"class_list":["post-122902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-liverpool","tag-vandijk"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=122902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122902\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/122903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=122902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=122902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=122902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}