{"id":375092,"date":"2021-07-18T21:13:02","date_gmt":"2021-07-18T20:13:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=375092"},"modified":"2021-07-18T21:13:07","modified_gmt":"2021-07-18T20:13:07","slug":"messi-named-favourite-to-win-ballon-dor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=375092","title":{"rendered":"Messi named favourite to win Ballon d&#8217;Or"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">Barcelona manager, Ronald Koeman, has said Lionel Messi is the favourite to win the Ballon d\u2019Or award this year.<br \/>\nMessi has already won the prize six times in the past \u2013 the most by any player in history.<br \/>\nEarlier this month, the 34-year-old led Argentina to Copa America triumph in Brazil.<br \/>\nWith that victory, Messi has finally added an international title, which was the only silverware missing from his stunning CV.<br \/>\nKoeman believes his captain deserves recognition for his individual brilliance for both club and country over the past 12 months.<br \/>\n\u201cHe has shown time and again he is the best in the world. I know how much he wanted to win the Copa Am\u00e9rica and he has done it at last.<br \/>\n\u201cMessi is the prime candidate for the Ballon d\u2019Or after a great season and, for me, he is the favourite,\u201d Koeman told Barca\u2019s official website.\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barcelona manager, Ronald Koeman, has said Lionel Messi is the favourite to win the Ballon d\u2019Or award this year. Messi has already won the prize six times in the past \u2013 the most by any player in history. Earlier this month, the 34-year-old led Argentina to Copa America triumph in Brazil. With that victory, Messi [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":375093,"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":[2658,1073,10667],"class_list":["post-375092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-a","tag-argentina","tag-lionel-messi"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375092","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=375092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375092\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/375093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=375092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=375092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=375092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}