{"id":42124,"date":"2024-07-16T15:00:22","date_gmt":"2024-07-16T15:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/ballon-dor-javier-bordas-identifies-player-who-wouldve-won-award-with-barcelona\/"},"modified":"2024-07-16T15:00:22","modified_gmt":"2024-07-16T15:00:22","slug":"ballon-dor-javier-bordas-identifies-player-who-wouldve-won-award-with-barcelona","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/ballon-dor-javier-bordas-identifies-player-who-wouldve-won-award-with-barcelona\/","title":{"rendered":"Ballon d\u2019Or: Javier Bordas identifies player who would\u2019ve won award with Barcelona"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Former Barcelona vice-president, Javier Bordas, has claimed that Brazilian forward Neymar would have won the Ballon d\u2019Or if he had stayed at the Catalan club.<\/p>\n<p>Neymar left Barcelona to join Paris Saint-Germain in 2017.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking with SPORT (h\/t Le10Sport), Bordas also noted that the 32-year-old wanted to return to Barcelona after joining the French Ligue 1 champions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI would have liked him to stay and there were options for him to come back,\u201d Bordas said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf he had come back, he would have won the Ballon d\u2019Or with Bar\u00e7a.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe wanted to come back so much that a few weeks after his departure, he already wanted to come back.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Neymar currently plays for Saudi Arabia club Al Hilal.<\/p>\n<p>Ballon d\u2019Or: Javier Bordas identifies player who would\u2019ve won award with Barcelona<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Barcelona vice-president, Javier Bordas, has claimed that Brazilian forward Neymar would have won the Ballon d\u2019Or if he had&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":42125,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9315,5606,21118,15,160],"tags":[1481,1995,1875,21119,1993,1509,14775,180,353,201,297,364,1220,18319],"class_list":["post-42124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ballon-dor","category-barcelona","category-javier-bordas","category-news","category-sport","tag-award","tag-ballon","tag-barcelona","tag-bordas","tag-dor","tag-identifies","tag-javier","tag-news","tag-player","tag-sport","tag-who","tag-with","tag-won","tag-wouldve"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42124","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=42124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42124\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}