{"id":9346,"date":"2019-12-02T16:04:52","date_gmt":"2019-12-02T16:04:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/football\/?p=9346"},"modified":"2022-03-21T14:23:05","modified_gmt":"2022-03-21T14:23:05","slug":"ballon-dor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/football\/ballon-dor\/uncategorized\/","title":{"rendered":"Ballon D&#8217;or!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every year, the football community pick the world\u2019s best player, who has been performing the best all year round and see who wins the best player of the year and be considered the best player in the world. There has been a lot of speculation about this year\u2019s Ballon D&#8217;or, we could see our first defender Ballon D&#8217;or winner since Cannavaro. The winner is going to be announced tonight and everyone is excited to see who will win the Ballon D&#8217;or this year!<\/p>\n<p>There are two people that are favourites to win this award and no one knows who is going to win the award at all. The two favourites are Virgil Van Dijk and Lionel Messi. Fans around the world are wanting someone else to win the award other than Messi and Ronaldo, however Messi has been in top form this year and so have Van Dijk. Messi is the obvious winner in some people\u2019s eyes and others believe that Van Dijk should win the award due to him winning the Champions League and almost winning the Premier League.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_9347\" style=\"width: 1010px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9347\" class=\"wp-image-9347 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/football\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2019\/12\/shutterstock_1425609296.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"662\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/football\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2019\/12\/shutterstock_1425609296.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/football\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2019\/12\/shutterstock_1425609296-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/football\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2019\/12\/shutterstock_1425609296-768x508.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/football\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2019\/12\/shutterstock_1425609296-100x66.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/football\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2019\/12\/shutterstock_1425609296-50x33.jpg 50w, https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/football\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2019\/12\/shutterstock_1425609296-25x17.jpg 25w, https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/football\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2019\/12\/shutterstock_1425609296-600x397.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-9347\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Editorial credit: Vlad1988 \/ Shutterstock.com<\/p><\/div>\n<p>After all, the Ballon D&#8217;or is a huge and anyone who wins the award should be classed as every lucky and will be classed by everyone in the world as the best player in the world. Will it be Van Dijk&#8230; or Messi?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every year, the football community pick the world\u2019s best player, who has been performing the best all year round and see who wins the best player of the year and be considered the best player in the world. There has been a lot of speculation about this year\u2019s Ballon D&#8217;or, we could see our first&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":9347,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2358],"class_list":["post-9346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-other-football-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9346"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9346\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9348,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9346\/revisions\/9348"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}