{"id":172299,"date":"2019-12-02T13:50:54","date_gmt":"2019-12-02T11:50:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=172299"},"modified":"2019-12-02T12:52:04","modified_gmt":"2019-12-02T11:52:04","slug":"ballon-dor-2019-all-you-need-to-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=172299","title":{"rendered":"Ballon D’Or 2019: All you need to know"},"content":{"rendered":"

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On Monday night, France Football will unveil the winner of this year\u2019s Ballon D\u2019Or award.<\/p>\n

The event will be held at the Th\u00e9\u00e2tre du Ch\u00e2telet in Paris, France and the official ceremony won\u2019t start until 19:30 GMT.<\/p>\n

Barcelona captain, Lionel Messi, is widely expected to win the prize for a record sixth time, one more than his eternal rival, Cristiano Ronaldo.<\/p>\n

Messi has scored 40 goals already in 2019 and led Barca to another LaLiga title and the semi-finals of the Champions League.<\/p>\n

The Argentine superstar has already been named FIFA\u2019s The Best Men\u2019s Player for 2019, ahead of Liverpool\u2019s Virgil van Dijk.<\/p>\n

USA women\u2019s World Cup superstar, Megan Rapinoe, has been tipped to win the female prize.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On Monday night, France Football will unveil the winner of this year\u2019s Ballon D\u2019Or award. The event will be held at the Th\u00e9\u00e2tre du Ch\u00e2telet in Paris, France and the official ceremony won\u2019t start until 19:30 GMT. Barcelona captain, Lionel Messi, is widely expected to win the prize for a record sixth time, one more […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":172300,"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":[2658,8042,10667],"class_list":["post-172299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-a","tag-ballon-dor","tag-lionel-messi"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172299","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=172299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172299\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/172300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=172299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=172299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=172299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}