{"id":172597,"date":"2019-12-03T08:45:09","date_gmt":"2019-12-03T06:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=172597"},"modified":"2019-12-03T07:45:34","modified_gmt":"2019-12-03T06:45:34","slug":"ballon-dor-2019-messi-snubs-ronaldo-reveals-player-that-could-win-award-next","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=172597","title":{"rendered":"Ballon d&#8217;Or 2019: Messi snubs Ronaldo, reveals player that could win award next"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/storage\/2019\/12\/Ballon-dOr-2019-Messi-snubs-Ronaldo-reveals-player-that-could.jpeg\"><\/p>\n<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">Barcelona\u2019s Lionel Messi has named Kylian Mbappe of Paris Saint-Germain, as a potential Ballon d\u2019Or winner.<\/p>\n<p>Messi won the award for this year on Monday, ahead of Virgil van Dijk and Cristiano Ronaldo in Paris.<\/p>\n<p>The Argentine, who turns 33 in June, however, is keen to secure more Ballons d\u2019Or in the future, but feels Mbappe is a new threat.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI could not imagine it. I would never have thought of winning even one.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut I am very happy. It\u2019s a recognition that makes me proud. Maybe I will win more. Maybe, I do not know when.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cKylian Mbappe could too. Surely he\u2019s a great player,\u201d Messi told L\u2019Equipe.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script type=\"63c4f75941f7d2e4df0fd46e-text\/javascript\">(function(d, s, id) {\n  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\n  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\n  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\n  js.src = 'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&amp;version=v3.2&amp;appId=420332301344305&amp;autoLogAppEvents=1';\n  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\n}(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));<\/br><\/br><\/br><\/br><\/br><\/br><\/script><script type=\"63c4f75941f7d2e4df0fd46e-text\/javascript\">(function(d, s, id) {\n  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\n  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\n  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\n  js.src = 'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&amp;version=v3.2&amp;appId=181005951975036&amp;autoLogAppEvents=1';\n  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\n}(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));<\/br><\/br><\/br><\/br><\/br><\/br><\/script><\/p>\n<p>[ad_2]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barcelona\u2019s Lionel Messi has named Kylian Mbappe of Paris Saint-Germain, as a potential Ballon d\u2019Or winner. Messi won the award for this year on Monday, ahead of Virgil van Dijk and Cristiano Ronaldo in Paris. The Argentine, who turns 33 in June, however, is keen to secure more Ballons d\u2019Or in the future, but feels [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":172598,"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-172597","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\/172597","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=172597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172597\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/172598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=172597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=172597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=172597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}