{"id":8854,"date":"2023-11-17T19:11:44","date_gmt":"2023-11-17T13:41:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/baysidesports.com\/football\/2023\/11\/17\/messi-deserves-the-ballon-dor-mbappe\/"},"modified":"2023-11-17T19:11:44","modified_gmt":"2023-11-17T13:41:44","slug":"messi-deserves-the-ballon-dor-mbappe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baysidesports.com\/football\/2023\/11\/17\/messi-deserves-the-ballon-dor-mbappe\/","title":{"rendered":"Messi deserves the Ballon d\u2019Or: Mbappe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Paris Saint-Germain and France\u2019s Kylian Mbappe said that former teammate Lionel Messi deserved the Ballon d\u2019Or this year in a press conference on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs I said, I am not someone that is afraid. I have no problem, the ranking is what it is. Messi deserves it. When Messi wins the World Cup, Messi has to win the Ballon d\u2019Or. He\u2019s one of the best players in history, if not the best,\u201d Mbappe said.<\/p>\n<p>ALSO READ: <a href=\"https:\/\/sportstar.thehindu.com\/football\/caf-awards-2023-nominees-men-categories-best-player-osimhen-mane-full-players-list\/article67545144.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nominees announced for CAF Awards 2023 men\u2019s categories<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Messi captained the Argentina side that beat France in the final of the 2022 World Cup, in which Mbappe grabbed a hat-trick. The Argentine won the Golden Ball award post the tournament, while Mbappe won the Golden Boot with eight goals.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMessi had to win the Ballon d\u2019Or, he won the World Cup, he\u2019s one of the greatest in history, if not the greatest for me,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHaaland had a great season, me too, but next to winning the World Cup it doesn\u2019t weigh much. Leo deserved it\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Messi won a record-extending eighth Ballon d\u2019Or award, with Erling Haaland and Mbappe finishing second and third, respectively.<\/p>\n<div class=\"comments-shares share-page\">\n<p class=\"comments\">\nComments\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Messi won a record extending eighth Ballon d\u2019Or award, with Haaland and Mbappe finishing second and third, respectively.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":8855,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football-sport-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baysidesports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/baysidesports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/baysidesports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baysidesports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/baysidesports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8854\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baysidesports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baysidesports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baysidesports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baysidesports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}