{"id":10945,"date":"2021-10-09T00:36:08","date_gmt":"2021-10-08T19:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=157462"},"modified":"2021-10-09T00:36:08","modified_gmt":"2021-10-08T19:06:08","slug":"mens-ballon-dor-2021-nominees-are-officially-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/football\/mens-ballon-dor-2021-nominees-are-officially-announced\/","title":{"rendered":"Men\u2019s Ballon d\u2019Or 2021 nominees are officially announced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the most prestigious awards in football has been released. It is a shortlist of the best 30 players in the world and the winner will be announced on 11th November 6 times Ballon d\u2019Or winner Messi who has the best chance to win another in the list and other obvious players like Cristiano Ronaldo, Salah, Romelu Lukaku, Neymar, Benzema is on the list.<\/p>\n<p>Here is the full list posted by the official page for ballon d\u00f3r nominees and winners<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Here are the first 20 nominees for the Men\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ballondor?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#ballondor<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/tIHav6s9gx\">pic.twitter.com\/tIHav6s9gx<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ballon d'Or (@ballondor) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ballondor\/status\/1446531463818747945?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 8, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Here are the other 10 nominees for the Men\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ballondor?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#ballondor<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/auEMazmpEy\">pic.twitter.com\/auEMazmpEy<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ballon d'Or (@ballondor) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ballondor\/status\/1446531470022123570?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 8, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Lionel Messi has the best chance to win his 7th Ballon D\u2019or as he finished La Liga for the 5th successive season as the leading scorer, he also won his long-awaited international trophy with a Copa America. He also showed this level of dominance in La Liga and is considered this year\u2019s favourite.<\/p>\n<p>Few would have anticipated Jorginho to be amongst the front runners for the Ballon d\u2019Or a year ago, but the Chelsea midfielder finds himself as one of the favourites in the current market. Jorginho was excellent during Chelsea\u2019s triumphant Champions League campaign. He followed that success by playing a central role as Italy won Euro 2020, with the star\u2019s claiming of two of football\u2019s biggest prizes catapulting him into contention for the Ballon d\u2019Or.<\/p>\n<p>Robert Lewandowski is another player who has one the highest chance to win the Ballon d\u2019Or. The Poland international scored 55 goals in all competitions as Bayern and he has continued to score goals at an extraordinary rate since, including scoring a record-breaking 41 goals in just 29 Bundesliga appearances last season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>France football just announced its full list for Ballon d\u2019Or nominees consisting of the top 30 players in the whole world and will announce the ultimate winner on 11th November. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":220,"featured_media":33421,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1820,344,321,719,1817,1939,449,1778,2535,264,447,266,2534,424],"class_list":["post-10945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football","tag-ballon-dor","tag-bundesliga","tag-cristiano-ronaldo","tag-harry-kane","tag-karim-benzema","tag-kevin-de-bruyne","tag-kylian-mbappe","tag-luka-modric","tag-ngolo-kante","tag-neymar","tag-psg","tag-real-madrid","tag-robert-lewandowski","tag-romelu-lukaku"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/220"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10945\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}