{"id":63005,"date":"2018-11-20T11:48:37","date_gmt":"2018-11-20T10:48:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=63005"},"modified":"2018-11-20T11:49:54","modified_gmt":"2018-11-20T10:49:54","slug":"2018-ballon-dor-top-three-man-final-shortlist-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=63005","title":{"rendered":"2018 Ballon d’Or: Top three-man final shortlist revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Atletico Madrid ace, Antoine Griezmann and Real Madrid duo, Luka Modric and Raphael Varane are the players that made the top three-man final shortlist for this year\u2019s Ballon d\u2019 or.<\/p>\n

This claim was made by respected journalist, Mootaz Chehade.<\/p>\n

Recall that Griezmann, Modric and Varane were shortlisted for the 2018 Ballon d\u2019Or award last month.<\/p>\n

According to TheSportsman, Chehade disclosed that either Greizmann, Modric or Varane will win the Europe topflight individual award ahead of Juventus star, Cristiano Ronaldo and Barcelona captain, Lionel Messi.<\/p>\n

Ronaldo and Messi have dominated the award for ten years now.<\/p>\n

The pair had won incredible five awards each in that time frame, with Ronaldo equalling Messi\u2019s tally last year.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Ballon d\u2019Or this year will be awarded to a player who plays in Madrid, either Griezmann, Varane or Modric. Next week France Football\u2019s team will travel to the Spanish capital to make the usual photo with the prize that should be on the cover of the magazine,\u201d Chehade Tweeted on Monday.<\/p>\n

The 2018 Ballon d\u2019 Or award ceremony will take place on December 3, 2018 in Paris.\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Atletico Madrid ace, Antoine Griezmann and Real Madrid duo, Luka Modric and Raphael Varane are the players that made the top three-man final shortlist for this year\u2019s Ballon d\u2019 or. This claim was made by respected journalist, Mootaz Chehade. Recall that Griezmann, Modric and Varane were shortlisted for the 2018 Ballon d\u2019Or award last month. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25706,"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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[8042,8044,8043],"class_list":["post-63005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-ballon-dor","tag-griezman","tag-luka-modric"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63005","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=63005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63005\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/25706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}