{"id":151338,"date":"2019-09-11T15:42:20","date_gmt":"2019-09-11T14:42:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=151338"},"modified":"2019-09-11T15:42:52","modified_gmt":"2019-09-11T14:42:52","slug":"ballon-dor-2019-sergio-ramos-names-player-to-win-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=151338","title":{"rendered":"Ballon d&#8217;Or 2019: Sergio Ramos names player to win award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/arewa.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Ballon-dOr-2019-Sergio-Ramos-names-player-to-win-award.jpg\"><\/p>\n<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">Real Madrid\u2019s captain, Sergio Ramos, has backed Liverpool\u2019s Virgil van Dijk to win this year\u2019s Ballon d\u2019 Or ahead of Barcelona captain, Lionel Messi and Juventus superstar, Cristiano Ronaldo.<\/p>\n<p>Ramos also described Van Dijk as a great defender, adding that it will be on sufficient merit if he wins the world individual top-prize award ahead of Messi and Ronaldo.<\/p>\n<p>Van Dijk recently won this year\u2019s UEFA Men Player of the Year award ahead of Messi and Ronaldo.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf Van Dijk wins it [Ballon d\u2019 Or], it will be on sufficient merit \u2013 great defender,\u201d Ramos said at the launch of his new Amazon Prime documentary, as reported by the Evening Standard.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs a defender, it\u2019s harder. It seems as though it\u2019s not just Messi and Cristiano [now]. It seems there\u2019s a route opening [for others].\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt makes you think [when you realise] that no Spanish players have won it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s an individual prize and it\u2019s not really known what is being recognised.\u201d<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Real Madrid\u2019s captain, Sergio Ramos, has backed Liverpool\u2019s Virgil van Dijk to win this year\u2019s Ballon d\u2019 Or ahead of Barcelona captain, Lionel Messi and Juventus superstar, Cristiano Ronaldo. Ramos also described Van Dijk as a great defender, adding that it will be on sufficient merit if he wins the world individual top-prize award ahead [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":151339,"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":[8042,4679,13113],"class_list":["post-151338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-ballon-dor","tag-christiano-ronaldo","tag-van-dijk"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151338","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=151338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151338\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/151339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=151338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=151338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=151338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}