{"id":413537,"date":"2021-11-09T20:29:53","date_gmt":"2021-11-09T19:29:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=413537"},"modified":"2021-11-09T20:33:33","modified_gmt":"2021-11-09T19:33:33","slug":"ballon-dor-2021-organizers-clear-air-on-messi-winning-ahead-of-lewandowski-jorginho","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=413537","title":{"rendered":"Ballon d&#8217;Or 2021: Organizers clear air on Messi winning ahead of Lewandowski, Jorginho"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">Ballon d\u2019Or organizers, France Football, have rubbished speculations that Lionel Messi of Paris Saint-Germain has already been informed he has won the 2021 award.<\/p>\n<p>There was no winner last year, as the event was cancelled because of the outbreak of COVID-19.<\/p>\n<p>However, on November 29, this year\u2019s winner will be crowned in Paris, France.<\/p>\n<p>Messi is considered to be a frontrunner, with some suggesting that he already has his hands on a seventh individual gong in a remarkable career.<\/p>\n<p>But those behind the voting insist no victor has been determined as yet.<\/p>\n<p>France Football editor, Pascal Ferre, has told Bild of the Messi speculation: \u201cThat\u2019s a lot of bullsh*t we\u2019ve seen in the past 10 days. A big bluff.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Messi faces stiff competition from Bayern Munich striker Robert Lewandowski, who claimed the FIFA Best award in 2020 and has scored 23 goals in 17 appearances this season.<\/p>\n<p>Italy and Chelsea midfielder Jorginho has seen his claims to a much sought-after piece of silverware talked up after helping the Azzurri to Euro 2020 glory and club side Chelsea to a Champions League crown.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ballon d\u2019Or organizers, France Football, have rubbished speculations that Lionel Messi of Paris Saint-Germain has already been informed he has won the 2021 award. There was no winner last year, as the event was cancelled because of the outbreak of COVID-19. However, on November 29, this year\u2019s winner will be crowned in Paris, France. Messi [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":413538,"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],"class_list":["post-413537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-a","tag-ballon-dor"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413537","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=413537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413537\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/413538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=413537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=413537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=413537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}