{"id":519231,"date":"2026-10-26T19:08:18","date_gmt":"2026-10-26T23:08:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=519231"},"modified":"2026-10-26T19:08:18","modified_gmt":"2026-10-26T23:08:18","slug":"harry-kane-lifts-the-ballon-dor-in-london-mbappe-second-yamal-third","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/harry-kane-lifts-the-ballon-dor-in-london-mbappe-second-yamal-third\/","title":{"rendered":"Harry Kane lifts the Ballon d&#8217;Or in London, Mbappe second, Yamal third"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Harry Kane has become the 1st English footballer to be awarded the Ballon d&#8217;Or since Michael Owen in 2001, after being selected as the world&#8217;s best player at a ceremony in London.<\/p>\n<p>The Bavarian side&#8217;s 33-year-old forward is the 5<sup>th<\/sup> Englishman to win in total, with Stanley Matthews (1956), Bobby Charlton (1966) and Kevin Keegan (1978 and 1979) the others.<\/p>\n<p>Harry netted 61 goals in 51 games in the past campaign, the most a Bayern footballer has ever scored in 1 season. If we add his goals with the national team, Kane had 73 goals + 8 assists in 65 games.<\/p>\n<p>Only 1 footballer at a club in Europe&#8217;s top 5 leagues has ever scored more goals in a campaign, and that was Leo Messi in 2011-12.<\/p>\n<p>But Kane won the Ballon d&#8217;Or despite not lifting either of football&#8217;s biggest prizes in the past campaign, having lost in both the World Cup and Champions League \u00bd finals.<\/p>\n<p>Harry becomes the 1<sup>st<\/sup> Bayern Munich footballer to secure this award since Karl-Heinz Rummenigge in 1981.<\/p>\n<p>However, the English forward finished with 2 trophies last campaign \u2013 a double in Germany.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83d\udea8 \ud835\udde2\ud835\uddd9\ud835\uddd9\ud835\udddc\ud835\uddd6\ud835\udddc\ud835\uddd4\ud835\udddf: Harry Kane has won the 2026 Men&#8217;s Ballon d&#8217;Or. \ud83c\udfc6\ud83c\udff4\udb40\udc67\udb40\udc62\udb40\udc65\udb40\udc6e\udb40\udc67\udb40\udc7f<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udd38 73 goals.<br \/>\n\ud83d\udd38 8 assists.<br \/>\n\ud83d\udd38 Bundesliga winner.<br \/>\n\ud83d\udd38 German Cup winner.<br \/>\n\ud83d\udd38 German Super Cup winner.<\/p>\n<p>The crowning moment of an extraordinary career. The England captain is a Ballon d&#8217;Or winner. \ud83d\udc10\ud83d\udc4f https:\/\/t.co\/w1jpSyEUi5<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Transfer News Live (@DeadlineDayLive) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/DeadlineDayLive\/status\/2114852312027890106?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\">October 26, 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>Harry Kane has become the 1st English footballer to be awarded the Ballon d&#8217;Or since Michael Owen in 2001, after being selected as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":519232,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[19989,18021],"news_category":[14235],"gn_keywords":[19990,18153],"acf":{"news_source":"","link_picture":"","announce":"The striker ends England's 25-year Ballon d'Or wait.","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\/519231"}],"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=519231"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/519231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":519233,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/519231\/revisions\/519233"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/519232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=519231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=519231"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=519231"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=519231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}