{"id":41157,"date":"2024-07-10T20:01:14","date_gmt":"2024-07-10T20:01:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/ballon-dor-he-deserves-it-rivaldo-names-player-to-win-award\/"},"modified":"2024-07-10T20:01:14","modified_gmt":"2024-07-10T20:01:14","slug":"ballon-dor-he-deserves-it-rivaldo-names-player-to-win-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/ballon-dor-he-deserves-it-rivaldo-names-player-to-win-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Ballon d\u2019Or: He deserves it \u2013 Rivaldo names player to win award"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Brazilian legend Rivaldo has said that his countryman, Vinicius Jr., deserves the 2024 Ballon d\u2019Or award despite his Copa America exit.<\/p>\n<p>He said the Real Madrid forward should win the award.<\/p>\n<p>Rivaldo, who won the prize in 1999, believes his compatriot has done enough to claim the prize this year.<\/p>\n<p>Vinicius was on fire for Real Madrid last season, scoring 24 goals and providing 11 assists in 39 games across competitions.<\/p>\n<p>He helped them to win La Liga, the UEFA Champions League, and Supercopa de Espana.<\/p>\n<p>Rivaldo said, according to SPORT: \u201cThe end of the season is the Copa America and the Euro Cup, so it can have an effect, of course.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn fact, these competitions make people start thinking about other names and candidates.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut even though he lost with Brazil, I think he deserves this award for everything he did this season.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ballon d\u2019Or: He deserves it \u2013 Rivaldo names player to win award<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brazilian legend Rivaldo has said that his countryman, Vinicius Jr., deserves the 2024 Ballon d\u2019Or award despite his Copa America&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41158,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9315,15,12684,160],"tags":[8,1481,1995,1993,239,351,180,353,12685,201,685],"class_list":["post-41157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ballon-dor","category-news","category-rivaldo","category-sport","tag-akwa-ibom","tag-award","tag-ballon","tag-dor","tag-deserves","tag-names","tag-news","tag-player","tag-rivaldo","tag-sport","tag-win"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41157","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=41157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41157\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}