{"id":465747,"date":"2023-10-14T04:20:25","date_gmt":"2023-10-14T08:20:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=465747"},"modified":"2023-10-14T04:19:53","modified_gmt":"2023-10-14T08:19:53","slug":"lionel-messi-is-certain-to-win-ballon-dor-for-eight-time","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/lionel-messi-is-certain-to-win-ballon-dor-for-eight-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Lionel Messi is certain to win Ballon d&#8217;Or for eight time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lionel Messi will win the Ballon d&#8217;Or for the eighth time in his career. The 36-year-old Argentine was informed yesterday by France Football magazine, which presents the biggest individual award in the most popular sport.<\/p>\n<p>The news was revealed by Messi&#8217;s close family friend &#8211; Alessandro Dossetti, who has been part of the forward&#8217;s entourage for years and even in recent months lives in Miami to be close to the Argentine.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOfficial! Leo wins the Ballon d&#8217;Or for 2023. The eighth Ballon d&#8217;Or is certainly his possession. He was told the news today,&#8221; Dossetti wrote in a story posted on his Instagram account.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\ud83d\udea8\ud83d\udea8\ud83c\udf99\ufe0f| BREAKING: Messi\u2019s family friend (Alessandro Dossett) says:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLionel Messi was told today that he is the winner of Ballon d\u2019Or 2023.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/k42Q1ZAmHE\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/k42Q1ZAmHE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 CentreGoals. (@centregoals) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/centregoals\/status\/1712859645872640120?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">October 13, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;France Football&#8221; announced in September the names of the 30 nominees for the Ballon d&#8217;Or. The official award ceremony will take place on October 30 at the Theatre du Chatelet in Paris.<\/p>\n<p>Messi&#8217;s eighth Ballon d&#8217;Or award will be in recognition of his World Cup 2022 title win. He was also named the tournament&#8217;s best player at the time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lionel Messi will win the Ballon d&#8217;Or for the eighth time in his career. The 36-year-old Argentine was informed yesterday by France Football [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":465748,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[19989,17909],"news_category":[17676,14235],"gn_keywords":[19990,17910],"acf":{"announce":"He received the news from France Football on Friday","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\/465747"}],"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\/137"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=465747"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/465747\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":465757,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/465747\/revisions\/465757"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/465748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=465747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=465747"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=465747"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=465747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}