{"id":467799,"date":"2023-10-30T17:46:58","date_gmt":"2023-10-30T21:46:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=467799"},"modified":"2023-10-30T17:46:58","modified_gmt":"2023-10-30T21:46:58","slug":"messi-triumphs-with-record-8th-ballon-dor","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/messi-triumphs-with-record-8th-ballon-dor\/","title":{"rendered":"Messi triumphs with record 8th Ballon d&#8217;Or"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Inter Miami CF superstar Leo Messi, took home the Ballon d&#8217;Or for a record 8<sup>th<\/sup> time, as he beat competition from the Sky Blues forward Erling Haaland after winning with his country Argentina the World Cup in Qatar in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>The Argentinian superstar (36) becomes the 1<sup>st<\/sup> MLS-based footballer to claim the prestigious award, as the biggest thing that decided the trophy to land in Lionel\u2019s hands was the triumph with Argentina.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">The \ud83d\udc10 has done it again!<br \/>\n8\ufe0f\u20e3 Ballons d&#8217;Or!<\/p>\n<p>The Bar\u00e7a family is proud of you, Leo Messi! \ud83d\udc99\u2764\ufe0f <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/6w2UAI6LKC\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/6w2UAI6LKC<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 FC Barcelona (@FCBarcelona) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FCBarcelona\/status\/1719106061343326403?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">October 30, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Inter Miami owner and ex-Red Devils superstar David Beckham handled the Ballon d&#8217;Or to Messi\u2019s hands at the ceremony in Paris, France.<\/p>\n<p>Haaland, who netted 52 goals last campaign as the Sky Blues won the Treble in 2022-23, finished in the 2<sup>nd<\/sup> place in the ranking but took home the Gerd Muller Trophy given to the best forward of the year.<\/p>\n<p>Even before today, no footballer had won the trophy more times than the Argentinian, who 1<sup>st<\/sup> won the Ballon d&#8217;Or in 2009 and then was 1<sup>st<\/sup> in 2010, 2011, 2012, 2015, 2019, and 2021.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\u2728 Leo Messi wins the Ballon d\u2019Or 2023 and it\u2019s his 8th Ballon d\u2019Or, it\u2019s official!<\/p>\n<p>2009 \u2014 2010 \u2014 2011 \u2014 2012 \u2014 2015 \u2014 2019 \u2014 2021 \u2014 2023 \u2b50\ufe0f\ud83c\udde6\ud83c\uddf7<\/p>\n<p>Legend of the game. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/YeZaFpZyq3\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/YeZaFpZyq3<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Fabrizio Romano (@FabrizioRomano) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FabrizioRomano\/status\/1719104809557455159?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">October 30, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inter Miami CF superstar Leo Messi, took home the Ballon d&#8217;Or for a record 8th time, as he beat competition from the Sky [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":467800,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[19989,16898],"news_category":[17676,14235,16715,14084],"gn_keywords":[19990,17905],"acf":{"announce":"Leo is the best player in the world for the past campaign.","video":["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\/467799"}],"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=467799"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/467799\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":467803,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/467799\/revisions\/467803"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/467800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=467799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=467799"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=467799"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=467799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}