{"id":472866,"date":"2023-12-14T15:33:02","date_gmt":"2023-12-14T19:33:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=472866"},"modified":"2023-12-14T15:33:02","modified_gmt":"2023-12-14T19:33:02","slug":"messi-mbappe-haaland-in-a-battle-for-fifa-best-mens-player-award","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/messi-mbappe-haaland-in-a-battle-for-fifa-best-mens-player-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Messi, Mbappe, Haaland in a battle for FIFA Best Men&#8217;s Player award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The finalists for the FIFA 2023 Best Men&#8217;s Player award were announced by world soccer&#8217;s governing body on Thursday, featuring Lionel Messi, Kylian Mbappe, and Erling Haaland.<\/p>\n<p>Erling Haaland played a crucial role in Manchester City&#8217;s triumphant season, securing major trophies such as the Champions League, English Premier League, and FA Cup.<\/p>\n<p>Lionel Messi, the winner of the 2022 award, led Argentina to World Cup victory before claiming the Ligue 1 title with Paris St Germain alongside Kylian Mbappe. Subsequently, Messi made a move to the Major League Soccer team Inter Miami.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"fi\">FIFA announce the finalists for The Best player awards \ud83e\udd47<\/p>\n<p>\ud835\udc0c\ud835\udc1e\ud835\udc27:<\/p>\n<p>Leo Messi<br \/>\nErling Haaland<br \/>\nKylian Mbapp\u00e9<\/p>\n<p>\ud835\udc16\ud835\udc28\ud835\udc26\ud835\udc1e\ud835\udc27:<\/p>\n<p>Aitana Bonmat\u00ed<br \/>\nLinda Caicedo<br \/>\nJenni Hermoso <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/gGnUA3O3dq\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/gGnUA3O3dq<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 B\/R Football (@brfootball) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/brfootball\/status\/1735304809689862519?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">December 14, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>In the women&#8217;s best player category, the shortlist includes two 2023 World Cup champions, Aitana Bonmati and Jennifer Hermoso from Spain, along with Linda Caicedo, who represents Colombia.<\/p>\n<p>The winners of these prestigious awards will be unveiled on January 15 in London, England.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The finalists for the FIFA 2023 Best Men&#8217;s Player award were announced by world soccer&#8217;s governing body on Thursday, featuring Lionel Messi, Kylian [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":472867,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17223,17367,16906,17909],"news_category":[14235],"gn_keywords":[17949,17910,16461,432],"acf":{"announce":"The winners will be announced on January 15 in London","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\/472866"}],"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=472866"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/472866\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":472869,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/472866\/revisions\/472869"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/472867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=472866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=472866"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=472866"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=472866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}