{"id":523212,"date":"2026-09-08T11:22:16","date_gmt":"2026-09-08T15:22:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/?p=523212"},"modified":"2026-09-08T11:22:21","modified_gmt":"2026-09-08T15:22:21","slug":"messi-nominated-for-the-ballon-dor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/sports\/messi-nominated-for-the-ballon-dor\/","title":{"rendered":"Messi nominated for the Ballon d\u2019Or"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Argentina captain <strong>Lionel Messi, 39, has been nominated for the Ballon d\u2019Or<\/strong>, the prestigious award presented by France Football magazine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The nomination marks Messi\u2019s <strong>17th Ballon d\u2019Or nomination<\/strong>. The Inter Miami star has won the prestigious award <strong>eight times<\/strong>, the most in its history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Messi is among a group of major stars nominated this year, including France\u2019s Kylian Mbapp\u00e9, Spain\u2019s Lamine Yamal, Norway\u2019s Erling Haaland and Brazil\u2019s Vinicius Jr.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Argentina captain Lionel Messi, 39, has been nominated for the Ballon d\u2019Or, the prestigious award presented by France Football magazine. The nomination marks Messi\u2019s 17th Ballon d\u2019Or nomination. The Inter Miami star has won the prestigious award eight times, the most in its history. Messi is among a group of major stars nominated this year, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":523213,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[40943,6],"tags":[611],"class_list":["post-523212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","category-sports","tag-deultimominuto"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phj1q1-2c6U","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/09\/Captura-de-pantalla-2026-09-08-112041.png","dum_api":{"author_name":"Edith B\u00e1ez","author_image":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/08\/cropped-WhatsApp-Image-2026-08-11-at-11.09.56-AM-96x96.jpeg","categories_name":["Football","Sports"],"featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cdn.deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/09\/Captura-de-pantalla-2026-09-08-112041.png"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=523212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523212\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/523213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=523212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=523212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=523212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}