{"id":49480,"date":"2024-09-17T21:04:34","date_gmt":"2024-09-17T21:04:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/i-dont-think-about-winning-ballon-dor-rodri-gives-honest-verdict\/"},"modified":"2024-09-17T21:04:34","modified_gmt":"2024-09-17T21:04:34","slug":"i-dont-think-about-winning-ballon-dor-rodri-gives-honest-verdict","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/i-dont-think-about-winning-ballon-dor-rodri-gives-honest-verdict\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I don\u2019t think about winning Ballon d\u2019Or\u2019 \u2013 Rodri gives honest verdict"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Manchester City midfielder Rodri has given an honest verdict about the battle to win the 2024 Ballon d\u2019Or.<\/p>\n<p>The Spain international admitted that people are trying to push him to win the Ballon d\u2019Or this year, adding that he doesn\u2019t think about winning the prestigious individual prize.<\/p>\n<p>Rodri was among the 30-man players that was recently shortlisted for the Ballon d\u2019Or.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to the media ahead of Manchester City\u2019s Champions League tie with Inter Milan on Wednesday, Rodri said (via the BBC): \u201cI\u2019m very, very happy for everything that happened to me in the last years. Winning what Manchester City won and winning the Euros with my country is just a dream. It\u2019s a consequence of hard work, consistency and never giving up.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI really feel right now that people are recognising my work and trying to push me to win the Ballon d\u2019Or. It\u2019s not something I think about, to be honest.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2018I don\u2019t think about winning Ballon d\u2019Or\u2019 \u2013 Rodri gives honest verdict<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Manchester City midfielder Rodri has given an honest verdict about the battle to win the 2024 Ballon d\u2019Or. The Spain&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":49481,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9315,15,7421,160],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ballon-dor","category-news","category-rodri","category-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49480","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=49480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49480\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}