{"id":458678,"date":"2023-09-10T00:04:32","date_gmt":"2023-09-09T20:04:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=458678"},"modified":"2023-09-10T00:04:32","modified_gmt":"2023-09-09T20:04:32","slug":"erling-haaland-trusts-he-can-triumph-with-2023-ballon-dor","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/erling-haaland-trusts-he-can-triumph-with-2023-ballon-dor\/","title":{"rendered":"Erling Haaland trusts he can triumph with 2023 Ballon d&#8217;Or"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Sky Blues attacker Erling Haaland has admitted that he could triumph with this year\u2019s edition of Ballon d&#8217;Or.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Erling Haaland believes he can go toe-to-toe with Lionel Messi for the Ballon d&#8217;Or this year<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/BHbBxb9MgO\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/t.co\/BHbBxb9MgO<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Mail Sport (@MailSport) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MailSport\/status\/1700569783677141188?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">September 9, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The Norway international is among the favorites for this year&#8217;s award after netting 52 goals in 53 matches in the past campaign as he won a treble with Manchester City \u2013 the Premier League, the FA Cup, and the Champions League.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think that I can win the award,&#8221; Erling told France Football. &#8220;I know I can become a better player because I\u2019m still young. But yes, I have a great chance to take home the Ballon d&#8217;Or this year.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>His biggest competition will be Kylian Mbappe and Lionel Messi, as the Argentinian superstar won the World Cup in Qatar during the past season.<\/p>\n<p>Haaland added that he dreams of achieving great things with Norway but admitted that they are a small country with less than 6 million population, and the task would be very tough. Erling said he dreams of playing in a Euro or a World Cup.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Sky Blues attacker Erling Haaland has admitted that he could triumph with this year\u2019s edition of Ballon d&#8217;Or. Erling Haaland believes he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":458679,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17223,17183,17317],"news_category":[136,14235],"gn_keywords":[18121,17886,16461],"acf":{"announce":"The Norwegian forward backs himself for the award.","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\/458678"}],"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\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=458678"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/458678\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":458681,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/458678\/revisions\/458681"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/458679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=458678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=458678"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=458678"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=458678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}