{"id":47948,"date":"2021-10-09T20:09:20","date_gmt":"2021-10-09T18:09:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/?p=47948"},"modified":"2021-10-09T18:44:31","modified_gmt":"2021-10-09T16:44:31","slug":"ballon-dor-shortlist-messi-kante-among-30-nominees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.cc\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/ballon-dor-shortlist-messi-kante-among-30-nominees","title":{"rendered":"Ballon d\u2019Or shortlist: Messi, Kante Among 30 Nominees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\">Zimbabwe<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>The English Premier League dominates the 30-man shortlist for this year\u2019s Ballon d\u2019Or as no fewer than 14 stars from England\u2019s top flight vie for football\u2019s most prestigious prize.<\/p>\n<p>The award \u2014 given to the year\u2019s best footballer \u2014 was cancelled last year owing to the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>Lionel Messi, Jorginho and N\u2019Golo Kante have been named on the 30-man shortlist for the men\u2019s 2021 Ballon d\u2019Or award.<\/p>\n<p>Six-time Ballon d\u2019Or winner Messi ended his wait for a major international trophy when winning the Copa America with Argentina in the summer, while Kante and Jorginho both helped Chelsea win the Champions League.<\/p>\n<p>Kante was UEFA\u2019s Player of the Match in both semi-final legs against Real Madrid, as well as the final against Manchester City, while Jorginho was also integral to Italy\u2019s Euro 2020 triumph.<\/p>\n<p>Bayern Munich striker Lewandowski missed out on the 2020 award, with the 33-year-old widely expected to claim the individual award before it was cancelled by organisers.<\/p>\n<p>Ballon d\u2019Or shortlist<\/p>\n<p><b>Premier League:<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Cesar Azpilicueta, Kevin de Bruyne, Cristiano Ronaldo, Ruben Dias, Bruno Fernandes, Phil Foden, Jorginho, Harry Kane, N\u2019Golo Kant\u00e9, Romelu Lukaku, Riyad Mahrez, Mason Mount, Mohamed Salah, Raheem Sterling<\/p>\n<p><b>Serie A:<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Nicolo Barella, Leonardo Bonucci, Giorgio Chiellini, Simon Kjaer, Lautaro Martinez<\/p>\n<p><b>LaLiga:<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Karim Benzema, Luka Modric, Gerard Moreno, Pedri, Luis Suarez<\/p>\n<p><b>Ligue 1:<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Gianluigi Donnarumma, Kylian Mbapp\u00e9, Lionel Messi, Neymar<\/p>\n<p><b>Bundesliga:<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Erling Haaland, Robert Lewandowski<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Zimbabwe. The English Premier League dominates the 30-man shortlist for this year\u2019s Ballon d\u2019Or as no fewer than 14 stars from England\u2019s top flight vie for football\u2019s most prestigious prize. The award \u2014 given to the year\u2019s best footballer \u2014 was cancelled last year owing to the coronavirus pandemic. Lionel Messi, Jorginho and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":47947,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,35,16,15],"tags":[1493,2189,6569,2237,6570,19],"class_list":{"0":"post-47948","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-all-news","8":"category-homepage-english","9":"category-sport","10":"category-twitter","11":"tag-africa-press","12":"tag-africa-press-zimbabwe-2","13":"tag-ballon-dor","14":"tag-lionel-messi","15":"tag-ngolo-kante","16":"tag-zimbabwe"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.1 (Yoast SEO v24.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Ballon d\u2019Or shortlist: Messi, Kante Among 30 Nominees - zimbabwe<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The English Premier League dominates the 30-man shortlist for this year\u2019s Ballon d\u2019Or as no fewer than 14 stars from Eng ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/ballon-dor-shortlist-messi-kante-among-30-nominees\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Ballon d\u2019Or shortlist: Messi, Kante Among 30 Nominees\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The English Premier League dominates the 30-man shortlist for this year\u2019s Ballon d\u2019Or as no fewer than 14 stars from Eng ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/ballon-dor-shortlist-messi-kante-among-30-nominees\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"zimbabwe\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2021-10-09T18:09:20+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2021-10-09T16:44:31+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/sites\/14\/2021\/10\/img-6161c6d74692b.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"720\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"405\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/ballon-dor-shortlist-messi-kante-among-30-nominees\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/ballon-dor-shortlist-messi-kante-among-30-nominees\",\"name\":\"Ballon d\u2019Or shortlist: Messi, Kante Among 30 Nominees - 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