{"id":37736,"date":"2024-06-17T22:04:58","date_gmt":"2024-06-17T22:04:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/ballon-dor-unai-simon-prefers-spanish-player-ahead-of-vinicius-bellingham\/"},"modified":"2024-06-17T22:04:58","modified_gmt":"2024-06-17T22:04:58","slug":"ballon-dor-unai-simon-prefers-spanish-player-ahead-of-vinicius-bellingham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/ballon-dor-unai-simon-prefers-spanish-player-ahead-of-vinicius-bellingham\/","title":{"rendered":"Ballon d\u2019Or: Unai Simon prefers Spanish player ahead of Vinicius, Bellingham"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Spain goalkeeper Unai Simon has claimed that his national teammate, Daniel Carvajal, deserves to become this season\u2019s Ballon d\u2019Or winner.<\/p>\n<p>However, two other Real Madrid players, Vinicius Junior and Jude Bellingham, are ahead of Carvajal in the race for the prized possession.<\/p>\n<p>Carvajal won the La Liga and Champions League, preceded by the Spanish Supercup title in January.<\/p>\n<p>He even scored in the Champions League final against Borussia Dortmund at Wembley.<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday, the right-back was also on target for La Roja against Croatia, scoring their third goal as Spain beat their opponents 3-0 in the opening game of the UEFA Euro 2024.<\/p>\n<p>While his club teammate Vinicius Junior is widely seen as the favourite for this year\u2019s Ballon d\u2019Or, Carvajal is seen as a contender for the prize too.<\/p>\n<p>Simon feels that only winning the Euros with Spain is going to solidify his chances.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to the press, the goalkeeper said: \u201cCarvajal is the best right back in the world, but to win the Ballon d\u2019Or, we would have to win the Euros.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ballon d\u2019Or: Unai Simon prefers Spanish player ahead of Vinicius, Bellingham<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spain goalkeeper Unai Simon has claimed that his national teammate, Daniel Carvajal, deserves to become this season\u2019s Ballon d\u2019Or winner.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":37737,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9315,5478,15,160,18339,8957],"tags":[317,1995,5479,1993,180,353,18341,4874,18340,201,5568,8958],"class_list":["post-37736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ballon-dor","category-bellingham","category-news","category-sport","category-unai-simon","category-vinicius","tag-ahead","tag-ballon","tag-bellingham","tag-dor","tag-news","tag-player","tag-prefers","tag-simon","tag-spanish","tag-sport","tag-unai","tag-vinicius"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37736","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=37736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37736\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}