{"id":153931,"date":"2019-09-20T17:20:14","date_gmt":"2019-09-20T16:20:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=153931"},"modified":"2019-09-20T17:21:09","modified_gmt":"2019-09-20T16:21:09","slug":"chelsea-legend-didier-drgoba-gets-france-football-ballon-dor-appointment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=153931","title":{"rendered":"Chelsea legend Didier Drgoba gets France Football Ballon d&#8217;Or appointment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/arewa.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Chelsea-legend-Didier-Drgoba-gets-news-appointment.jpg\"><\/p>\n<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">Chelsea legend, Didier Drogba has been appointed as France Football\u2019s Ballon d\u2019Or ambassador for this year.<\/p>\n<p>The 41-year-old will co-host the award ceremony later this year.<\/p>\n<p>He will also present the trophy to the winner of the annual award in Paris on December 2.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI feel honoured to present this prestigious award,\u201d the Ivory Coast legend said in a statement as reported by Goal.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI see it as an acknowledgment of my career and its exemplarity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Drogba never won the Ballon d\u2019Or during his playing career.<\/p>\n<p>He was nominated for the award eight times between 2004 and 2012, and finished fourth in 2007.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chelsea legend, Didier Drogba has been appointed as France Football\u2019s Ballon d\u2019Or ambassador for this year. The 41-year-old will co-host the award ceremony later this year. He will also present the trophy to the winner of the annual award in Paris on December 2. \u201cI feel honoured to present this prestigious award,\u201d the Ivory Coast [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":153932,"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":[8042,5269,133],"class_list":["post-153931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-ballon-dor","tag-drogba","tag-france"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153931","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=153931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153931\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/153932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=153931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=153931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=153931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}