{"id":412205,"date":"2023-02-10T11:38:20","date_gmt":"2023-02-10T16:38:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=412205"},"modified":"2023-02-10T11:38:20","modified_gmt":"2023-02-10T16:38:20","slug":"messi-mbappe-and-benzema-finalists-for-fifa-best-player-award","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/messi-mbappe-and-benzema-finalists-for-fifa-best-player-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Messi, Mbappe and Benzema finalists for FIFA Best Player award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-67 p Component-p-0-2-58\">Argentina\u2019s World Cup-winning captain Leo Messi, France\u2019s superstar forward Kylian Mbappe and Real Madrid striker Karim Benzema head the three-player shortlist announced by FIFA on Friday,<\/p>\n<p>The accolade recognises the most outstanding performers in the men\u2019s game from the period of 8 August 2021 to 18 December 2022.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-67 p Component-p-0-2-58\">In the Best Women\u2019s Player award, Beth Mead of England, Alex Morgan of the United States and Spain\u2019s Alexia Putellas were on the shortlist voted for by a separate global voting panel.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-67 p Component-p-0-2-58\">The winners will be announced at a Feb. 27 ceremony in Paris.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-67 p Component-p-0-2-58\">Messi edged Mbapp\u00e9 for the Golden Ball awarded by FIFA as the best player at the World Cup. Croatia captain Luka Modri\u0107 placed third in that contest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Argentina\u2019s World Cup-winning captain Leo Messi, France\u2019s superstar forward Kylian Mbappe and Real Madrid striker Karim Benzema head the three-player shortlist announced by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":412206,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17428,16906,16898],"news_category":[141,14235,14236],"gn_keywords":[],"acf":{"announce":"The winners will be announced at a Feb. 27 ceremony in Paris","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/412205"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=412205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/412205\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/412206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=412205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=412205"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=412205"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=412205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}