{"id":455379,"date":"2023-08-17T20:46:11","date_gmt":"2023-08-17T16:46:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=455379"},"modified":"2023-08-17T20:46:21","modified_gmt":"2023-08-17T16:46:21","slug":"messi-makes-it-into-uefas-3-man-shortlist-for-best-player","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/messi-makes-it-into-uefas-3-man-shortlist-for-best-player\/","title":{"rendered":"Messi makes it into UEFA&#8217;s 3-man shortlist for best player in Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UEFA has announced on Thursday the 3-man shortlist of players, who will compete for the best player in Europe and Lionel Messi has made the cut alongside Erlin Haaland and Kevin De Bruyne.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">BREAKING : Lionel Messi is the first player outside Europe to be nominated for UEFA Men\u2019s player of the year award <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/4m3BaDvneJ\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/4m3BaDvneJ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Berneese (@the_berneese_) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/the_berneese_\/status\/1692151799241679262?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">August 17, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The 36-year-old has clinched the award twice in his career (2011 and 2015) when Barcelona were crowned European Champions. Messi faces a difficult task of overcoming both Haaland and De Bruyne, who lifted the Champions League with Manchester City.<\/p>\n<p>The winner will be announced during the Champions League draw in Monaco on August 31.<\/p>\n<p>Pep Guardiola is unsurprisingly considered as red-hot favorite for the manager of the year.<\/p>\n<p>Ilkay Gundogan and Rodri were the other City players, who found themselves among the top of the voting in 4th and 5th respectively. Kylian Mbappe stood in 6th.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UEFA has announced on Thursday the 3-man shortlist of players, who will compete for the best player in Europe and Lionel Messi has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":440313,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17909,17368],"news_category":[142,14235],"gn_keywords":[17910,408],"acf":{"announce":"The Argentinian will compete with Erling Haaland and Kevin De Bruyne","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\/455379"}],"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=455379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/455379\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/440313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=455379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=455379"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=455379"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=455379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}