{"id":40538,"date":"2021-11-30T01:11:32","date_gmt":"2021-11-29T21:11:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/?p=40538"},"modified":"2021-11-30T03:59:27","modified_gmt":"2021-11-29T23:59:27","slug":"lionel-messi-wins-ballon-dor-2021-to-claim-record-seventh-trophy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/2021\/11\/30\/lionel-messi-wins-ballon-dor-2021-to-claim-record-seventh-trophy\/","title":{"rendered":"Lionel Messi wins Ballon d\u2019Or 2021 to claim record seventh trophy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Lionel Messi collected his seventh Ballon d\u2019Or award at a glittering 2021 ceremony in Paris this evening.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The annual football award, presented by French magazine France Football, was cancelled last year due to the Covid-19 pandemic, but &nbsp;returned tonight to the delight of footballers and fans across the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Winning the Copa America with Argentina pulled things in the Argentine&#8217;s favor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Award results came as follows:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>-Team of the year: Chelsea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>-Striker of the year: Robert Lewandowski.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>-Yashin Trophy (best goalkeeper in the world): Gianluigi Donnarumma.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>-Kopa Trophy (best player in the world under the age of 21): Pedri.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>-Ballon d&#8217;Or F\u00e9minin (best female player in the world): Alexia Putellas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>-Ballon d&#8217;Or (best male player in the world): Lionel Messi.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lionel Messi collected his seventh Ballon d\u2019Or award at a glittering 2021 ceremony in Paris this evening. The annual football award, presented by French magazine France Football, was cancelled last year due to the Covid-19 pandemic, but &nbsp;returned tonight to the delight of footballers and fans across the world. Winning the Copa America with Argentina &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":40539,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-news","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40538"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40538\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40543,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40538\/revisions\/40543"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}