{"id":1227471,"date":"2022-10-18T11:16:15","date_gmt":"2022-10-18T11:16:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/10\/18\/photos-benzema-wins-first-ballon-dor-award\/"},"modified":"2022-10-18T11:16:15","modified_gmt":"2022-10-18T11:16:15","slug":"photos-benzema-wins-first-ballon-dor-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/10\/18\/photos-benzema-wins-first-ballon-dor-award\/","title":{"rendered":"PHOTOS: Benzema Wins First Ballon D\u2019or Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>French footballer, Karim Benzema, has won the 2022 Player of the Year Ballon d\u2019Or award in Paris.<\/p>\n<p>The award was presented by former Real Madrid\u2019s coach Zinedine Zidane at the Theatre du Chatelet in Paris, France on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The 34-year-old Real Madrid\u2019s striker is winning the award for the first time in his career.<\/p>\n<p>Credit: Twitter | francefootball<br \/>\u2014<br \/>Follow us for more breaking news and videos<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-381439\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/IMG-20221018-WA0004-300x192.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"192\"  \/><\/p>\n<p><!-- AI CONTENT END 2 -->\n\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 French footballer, Karim Benzema, has won the 2022 Player of the Year Ballon d\u2019Or award in Paris. The award was presented by former Real Madrid\u2019s coach Zinedine Zidane at the Theatre du Chatelet in Paris, France on Monday. The 34-year-old Real Madrid\u2019s striker is winning the award for the first time in his career. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1227473,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[1986,9215,5835,9216,809,1000],"class_list":["post-1227471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-award","tag-ballon","tag-benzema","tag-dor","tag-photos","tag-wins"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1227471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1227471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1227471\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1227471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1227471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1227471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}