{"id":489104,"date":"2024-12-17T14:28:12","date_gmt":"2024-12-17T18:28:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=489104"},"modified":"2024-12-17T14:28:12","modified_gmt":"2024-12-17T18:28:12","slug":"vinicius-jr-wins-the-best-award-ahead-of-rodri","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/vinicius-jr-wins-the-best-award-ahead-of-rodri\/","title":{"rendered":"Vinicius Jr. wins &#8220;The Best&#8221; award ahead of Rodri"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Vinicius Junior has been named the winner of the men\u2019s FIFA Best award for 2024, celebrating his exceptional performances with Real Madrid throughout the year.<\/p>\n<p>The 24-year-old Brazilian forward received the honor during a ceremony in Qatar, where he and his Real Madrid teammates are preparing for the Intercontinental World Cup.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Vinicius Junior finally gets his award \ud83d\ude05\ud83c\udfc6 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Nv1TRuFFog\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/Nv1TRuFFog<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 LiveScore (@livescore) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/livescore\/status\/1869084597100921054?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">December 17, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>This recognition comes after Vinicius narrowly missed out on the Ballon d\u2019Or, which was awarded to Manchester City midfielder Rodri\u2014a decision that sparked outrage in Madrid and led to a Real Madrid boycott of the October Ballon d\u2019Or ceremony.<\/p>\n<p>Vinicius topped the FIFA Best vote, finishing five points ahead of Rodri, who came in second. England\u2019s Jude Bellingham claimed third place in the rankings.<\/p>\n<p>In the women\u2019s category, Barcelona star Aitana Bonmat\u00ed was named the FIFA Best women\u2019s player for the second consecutive year, solidifying her status as one of the top talents in women\u2019s football.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vinicius Junior has been named the winner of the men\u2019s FIFA Best award for 2024, celebrating his exceptional performances with Real Madrid throughout [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":489105,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[21390,17375,21159],"news_category":[137,14235,16715],"gn_keywords":[21391,21160,327],"acf":{"announce":"The Real Madrid forward got a small revenge over the Spanish midfielder for losing the Ballon d'Or","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\/489104"}],"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=489104"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/489104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":489106,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/489104\/revisions\/489106"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/489105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=489104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=489104"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=489104"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=489104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}