{"id":418481,"date":"2021-11-28T21:29:15","date_gmt":"2021-11-28T20:29:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=418481"},"modified":"2021-11-28T21:43:06","modified_gmt":"2021-11-28T20:43:06","slug":"ballon-d-or-2021-unique-footballer-sergio-ramos-picks-player-to-win-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=418481","title":{"rendered":"Ballon d\u2019 Or 2021: Unique footballer &#8211; Sergio Ramos picks player to win award"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">Paris Saint-Germain defender, Sergio Ramos, has backed teammate, Lionel Messi, to win the Ballon d\u2019 Or this year.<\/p>\n<p>Ramos described Messi as a unique football player, adding that he deserves to win the Ballon d\u2019 Or.<\/p>\n<p>France Football will present the 2021 Ballon d\u2019Or award on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Messi was nominated in the 30-man Ballon d\u2019 Or shortlisted recently.<\/p>\n<p>The former Barcelona captain, who led Argentina to win the Copa America this year, will rival Chelsea\u2019s Jorginho, Bayern Munich\u2019s Robert Lewandowski, Manchester United\u2019s Cristiano Ronaldo, Liverpool\u2019s Mohamed Salah, among others for the Ballon d\u2019 Or.<\/p>\n<p>Asked if he wants Messi to win this year\u2019s Ballon d\u2019Or, Ramos told ESPN after PSG\u2019s 3-1 win over Saint-\u00c9tienne on Sunday: \u201cYes, of course, I\u2019m going to defend the guys in my team.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI wish him all the luck in the world.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s in good shape, and I think he\u2019s the kind of player who really makes a difference,\u201d Ramos added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s a unique player and it\u2019s a privilege to have him in the team.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think that bit by bit, each of us is going to bring our own quality to make Paris Saint-Germain even greater and achieve the things we want to achieve.\u201d<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paris Saint-Germain defender, Sergio Ramos, has backed teammate, Lionel Messi, to win the Ballon d\u2019 Or this year. Ramos described Messi as a unique football player, adding that he deserves to win the Ballon d\u2019 Or. France Football will present the 2021 Ballon d\u2019Or award on Monday. Messi was nominated in the 30-man Ballon d\u2019 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":418482,"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":[2658,8192],"class_list":["post-418481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-a","tag-sergio-ramos"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418481","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=418481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418481\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/418482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=418481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=418481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=418481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}