{"id":518093,"date":"2026-09-23T09:57:13","date_gmt":"2026-09-23T13:57:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=518093"},"modified":"2026-09-23T09:57:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T13:57:13","slug":"mbappe-demands-the-ballon-dor-again","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/mbappe-demands-the-ballon-dor-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Mbapp\u00e9 demands the Ballon d&#8217;Or again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Los Blancos forward Kylian Mbapp\u00e9 claims he feels no &#8220;frustration&#8221; at not yet having won the Ballon d&#8217;Or, and the French star reckons &#8220;it could be a good year for me&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Kylian didn\u2019t win any titles in the past campaign, a factor that weighs heavily in the voting. Mbappe also finished 4<sup>th<\/sup> in the World Cup and didn\u2019t lift any trophy with the Royal club.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur game is a team sport, and that\u2019s why there are team awards to represent that collective dominance,\u201d Mbappe shared.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen we discuss Ballon d&#8217;Or, we give it to a single player, that is, to the best footballer, and the person who played the best, and every major tournament shows something.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Barca\u2019s Lamine Yamal and Bayern Munich&#8217;s Harry Kane will be Kylian\u2019s biggest competitors for the award. Leo Messi is also in fans&#8217; discussions for the 9<sup>th<\/sup> Ballon d&#8217;Or because of his run with Argentina at the World Cup, but that scenario is not realistic.<\/p>\n<p>Kylian failed to win the World Cup this summer with France, but scored 10 goals and finished as the top scorer of the tournament.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83d\udea8\ud83d\udde3\ufe0f Kylian Mbapp\u00e9: &quot;Can I play for France until 41 like Cristiano Ronaldo? We have to be honest, considering the country I play in, France would never let me play until I\u2019m 41 (laughs).&quot;<\/p>\n<p>&quot;But Cristiano shows that if you\u2019re in good physical and mental shape, you can play at this\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/s0ZcFh2ocM\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/s0ZcFh2ocM<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; The Touchline | \ud835\udc13 (@TouchlineX) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/TouchlineX\/status\/2102708696681791654?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\">September 23, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Los Blancos forward Kylian Mbapp\u00e9 claims he feels no &#8220;frustration&#8221; at not yet having won the Ballon d&#8217;Or, and the French star reckons [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":518094,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17142,16906],"news_category":[14236,14235],"gn_keywords":[17862,17949],"acf":{"news_source":"","link_picture":"","announce":"The French superstar talked about 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\/518093"}],"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=518093"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/518093\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":518095,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/518093\/revisions\/518095"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/518094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=518093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=518093"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=518093"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=518093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}