{"id":290632,"date":"2020-12-08T21:25:24","date_gmt":"2020-12-08T20:25:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=290632"},"modified":"2020-12-09T08:04:41","modified_gmt":"2020-12-09T07:04:41","slug":"ibrahimovics-agent-reveals-how-he-would-have-won-8-ballon-dors-ahead-of-messi-ronaldo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=290632","title":{"rendered":"Ibrahimovic&#8217;s agent reveals how he would have won 8 Ballon D&#8217;Ors ahead of Messi, Ronaldo"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">Mino Raiola, the agent to AC Milan striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic, has claimed his client would have won eight Ballon D\u2019Or awards, if it was down to public voting.<\/p>\n<p>According to Raiola, Ibrahimovic has \u201cthe talent of Lionel Messi and the willpower of Cristiano Ronaldo\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The former Sweden international has never been in contention for the most prestigious of individual accolades.<\/p>\n<p>He has made the long list of nominees in the past, but has failed to make it into the top three.<\/p>\n<p>Messi and Ronaldo, on the other hand, have shared 11 awards between them.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI immediately say that between Cristiano Ronaldo, of whom I\u2019m a big fan, and Messi, I\u2019ll always pick the Portuguese,\u201d Raiola told Tuttosport.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cZlatan, on the other hand, is from another planet in his own right. He is the most complete player ever in the history of football.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe has the talent of Messi and the willpower of CR7. If the Ballon d\u2019Or had been voted for by the public, I know he would have won eight.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>(DailyPost)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mino Raiola, the agent to AC Milan striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic, has claimed his client would have won eight Ballon D\u2019Or awards, if it was down to public voting. According to Raiola, Ibrahimovic has \u201cthe talent of Lionel Messi and the willpower of Cristiano Ronaldo\u201d. The former Sweden international has never been in contention for the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":290634,"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":[14615,7444,2398,13520],"class_list":["post-290632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-christiano-ronaldo-2","tag-ac-milan","tag-messi","tag-zlatan-ibrahimovic"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290632","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=290632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290632\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/290634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=290632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=290632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=290632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}