{"id":42369,"date":"2022-01-18T05:17:54","date_gmt":"2022-01-18T01:17:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/?p=42369"},"modified":"2022-01-18T05:17:54","modified_gmt":"2022-01-18T01:17:54","slug":"robert-lewandowski-named-best-fifa-mens-player-of-the-year-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/2022\/01\/18\/robert-lewandowski-named-best-fifa-mens-player-of-the-year-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Robert Lewandowski named Best FIFA Men&#8217;s Player of the Year 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Bayern Munich&#8217;s Robert Lewandowski has been named the FIFA Best Men&#8217;s Player of the Year for the second time in a row.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lewandowski &#8211; who claimed the 2020 award after becoming the first player to win and top score in each of the Bundesliga, UEFA Champions League and DFB Cup, with a combined 55 goals &#8211; beat off competition from Ballon d&#8217;Or holder Lionel Messi (Paris Saint-Germain) and Liverpool&#8217;s Mohamed Salah.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Alexia Putellas was recognised as The Best FIFA Women&#8217;s Player after previously winning the Ballon d&#8217;Or, while Edouard Mendy, Thomas Tuchel and Erik Lamela were among the others recognised.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bayern Munich&#8217;s Robert Lewandowski has been named the FIFA Best Men&#8217;s Player of the Year for the second time in a row. Lewandowski &#8211; who claimed the 2020 award after becoming the first player to win and top score in each of the Bundesliga, UEFA Champions League and DFB Cup, with a combined 55 goals &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":42370,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42369","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\/42369","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=42369"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42369\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42371,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42369\/revisions\/42371"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}