{"id":170529,"date":"2019-11-26T11:30:15","date_gmt":"2019-11-26T10:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=170529"},"modified":"2019-11-26T11:30:42","modified_gmt":"2019-11-26T10:30:42","slug":"ballon-dor-2019-mbappe-reveals-why-he-will-not-win-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=170529","title":{"rendered":"Ballon D’Or 2019: Mbappe reveals why he will not win award"},"content":{"rendered":"

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France and Paris Saint-Germain forward, Kylian Mbappe, has admitted he doesn\u2019t deserve to win this year\u2019s Ballon d\u2019Or.<\/p>\n

The 20-year-old is among 30 players nominated for the award, with Liverpool\u2019s Virgil van Dijk favourite to to earn the trophy ahead of Barcelona\u2019s Lionel Messi and Juventus\u2019 Cristiano Ronaldo.<\/p>\n

But Mbappe feels his chances are slim and he thinks he didn\u2019t win enough prestigious trophies to put himself among the favourites.<\/p>\n

When asked if he could win the Ballon d\u2019Or this year, Mbappe told Ouest France: \u201cThis year? You have to be realistic, I do not deserve it. There are players who have done more.<\/p>\n

\u201cWith PSG, we did not win all the national titles, in the Champions League, we disappointed.<\/p>\n

\u201cSure, at the individual level, I did win a lot of trophies, but football is not played alone and must accept it.<\/p>\n

\u201cI still have time to win it, I\u2019m in no hurry, it\u2019s not something that haunts me.\u201d<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

France and Paris Saint-Germain forward, Kylian Mbappe, has admitted he doesn\u2019t deserve to win this year\u2019s Ballon d\u2019Or. The 20-year-old is among 30 players nominated for the award, with Liverpool\u2019s Virgil van Dijk favourite to to earn the trophy ahead of Barcelona\u2019s Lionel Messi and Juventus\u2019 Cristiano Ronaldo. But Mbappe feels his chances are slim […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":131321,"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":[2658,10287],"class_list":["post-170529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-a","tag-kylian-mbappe"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170529","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=170529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170529\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/131321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=170529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=170529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=170529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}