{"id":34313,"date":"2024-05-27T21:01:03","date_gmt":"2024-05-27T21:01:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/its-natural-for-him-to-win-roberto-carlos-on-favourite-player-for-ballon-dor\/"},"modified":"2024-05-27T21:01:03","modified_gmt":"2024-05-27T21:01:03","slug":"its-natural-for-him-to-win-roberto-carlos-on-favourite-player-for-ballon-dor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/its-natural-for-him-to-win-roberto-carlos-on-favourite-player-for-ballon-dor\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018It\u2019s natural for him to win\u2019 \u2014 Roberto Carlos on favourite player for Ballon d\u2019Or"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Brazilian legend Roberto Carlos has backed Real Madrid winger Vinicius Junior to win the Ballon d\u2019Or this year.<\/p>\n<p>According to Carlos, the media and fans tried to destroy Vinicius during his early days at Real Madrid, which has made the Brazil international even stronger.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to the media at a recent event, Carlos said via TheMadridZone, that it would be natural for Vinicius to win the top individual prestigious award.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey tried to destroy Vini when he was young and that made him stronger,\u201d the former defender said of Vinicius.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are other great players, but we needed a player like Vini. If he continues like this, it will be natural for him to win the Ballon d\u2019Or.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Vinicius has been impressive for Real Madrid this season.<\/p>\n<p>He has already helped Los Blancos win La Liga and has played a key role in taking them to the UEFA Champions League final where they will face Borussia Dortmund.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018It\u2019s natural for him to win\u2019 \u2014 Roberto Carlos on favourite player for Ballon d\u2019Or<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brazilian legend Roberto Carlos has backed Real Madrid winger Vinicius Junior to win the Ballon d\u2019Or this year. According to&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34314,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9315,15,15883,160],"tags":[1995,9358,1993,180,12599,201],"class_list":["post-34313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ballon-dor","category-news","category-roberto-carlos","category-sport","tag-ballon","tag-carlos","tag-dor","tag-news","tag-roberto","tag-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34313\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}