{"id":56292,"date":"2024-10-29T17:04:38","date_gmt":"2024-10-29T17:04:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/ballon-dor-2024-iniesta-gives-verdict-on-rodri-winning-award-ahead-of-vinicius\/"},"modified":"2024-10-29T17:04:38","modified_gmt":"2024-10-29T17:04:38","slug":"ballon-dor-2024-iniesta-gives-verdict-on-rodri-winning-award-ahead-of-vinicius","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/ballon-dor-2024-iniesta-gives-verdict-on-rodri-winning-award-ahead-of-vinicius\/","title":{"rendered":"Ballon d\u2019Or 2024: Iniesta gives verdict on Rodri winning award ahead of Vinicius"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Barcelona legend, Andres Iniesta, has given his verdict on Rodri winning the 2024 Ballon d\u2019Or.<\/p>\n<p>Recall that Rodri won the 2024 Ballon d\u2019Or ahead of strong contender Vinicius on Monday in Paris.<\/p>\n<p>The Spain midfielder had a wonderful 2023-24 campaign for both club and country.<\/p>\n<p>Taking to his X account, Iniesta insisted that the Manchester City star more than deserved the award.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cM\u00e1s que merecido. Muchas felicidades, Rodri,\u201d Iniesta wrote on X. (More than deserved. Congratulations Rodri).<\/p>\n<p>Rodri, meanwhile, is currently recovering from an injury he sustained a few weeks ago.<\/p>\n<p>Ballon d\u2019Or 2024: Iniesta gives verdict on Rodri winning award ahead of Vinicius<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barcelona legend, Andres Iniesta, has given his verdict on Rodri winning the 2024 Ballon d\u2019Or. Recall that Rodri won the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":56293,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15917,6411,15,7421,160,8957],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ballon-dor-2024","category-iniesta","category-news","category-rodri","category-sport","category-vinicius"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56292","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=56292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56292\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}