{"id":170507,"date":"2019-11-26T11:36:49","date_gmt":"2019-11-26T10:36:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=170507"},"modified":"2019-11-26T11:37:17","modified_gmt":"2019-11-26T10:37:17","slug":"ballon-dor-klopp-predicts-player-who-will-win-award-next-monday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=170507","title":{"rendered":"Ballon D&#8217;Or: Klopp predicts player who will win award next Monday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/arewa.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Liverpool-owners-fear-Klopp-might-leave-club-as-manager-stalls-on-new-contract.jpg\"><\/p>\n<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">Liverpool manager, Jurgen Klopp, has tipped Virgil van Dijk, to win the 2019 Ballon D\u2019Or award next Monday, although he admitted Lionel Messi is the best player of this generation.<\/p>\n<p>Van Dijk is one of the favourites for the award, after being named UEFA\u2019s best player.<\/p>\n<p>Messi, however, remains firmly in contention for a sixth Ballon d\u2019Or, though he had won FIFA\u2019s The Best award in September ahead of the Reds defender.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you give the Ballon d\u2019Or to the best player of this generation then you should give it always to Lionel Messi. That\u2019s how it is.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut if you give it to the best player of last season, then it was Virgil van Dijk. I don\u2019t know exactly how it will work but that is how I see it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe best player of all? That\u2019s Lionel. Best player of last season? That\u2019s Virgil. We will see,\u201d Van Dijk said according to Goal.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Liverpool manager, Jurgen Klopp, has tipped Virgil van Dijk, to win the 2019 Ballon D\u2019Or award next Monday, although he admitted Lionel Messi is the best player of this generation. Van Dijk is one of the favourites for the award, after being named UEFA\u2019s best player. Messi, however, remains firmly in contention for a sixth [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":133582,"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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[2658,7414,12301],"class_list":["post-170507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-a","tag-jurgen-klopp","tag-vandijk"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170507","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=170507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170507\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/133582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=170507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=170507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=170507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}