{"id":1267213,"date":"2022-12-18T19:31:24","date_gmt":"2022-12-18T19:31:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/12\/18\/messi-wins-golden-ball-for-best-player-at-world-cup\/"},"modified":"2022-12-18T19:31:24","modified_gmt":"2022-12-18T19:31:24","slug":"messi-wins-golden-ball-for-best-player-at-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/12\/18\/messi-wins-golden-ball-for-best-player-at-world-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"Messi wins Golden Ball for best player at World Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"385\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/awards-221218g1050-696x385.jpg\"   alt=\"\" title=\"awards-221218g1050\"\/><\/div>\n<p>Lionel Messi on Sunday won the Golden Ball for the best player at this year\u2019s World Cup after leading Argentina to victory in the final against France.<\/p>\n<p>Messi scored twice in the final in Doha, taking his tally of goals at the tournament to seven, and also scored in the shoot-out as Argentina beat France 4-2 on penalties following a 3-3 draw after extra time.<\/p>\n<p>Kylian Mbappe came second to Messi for that award but did win the Golden Boot for the tournament\u2019s top scorer with eight goals, one ahead of the Argentine skipper.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/22191989129,1002554\/MGL\/mgl_ado_atunwa_300x250 --><\/p>\n<p>Luka Modric came third in the running for the best player after helping Croatia finish third.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Argentina\u2019s Emiliano Martinez took the Golden Glove for the World Cup\u2019s best goalkeeper, while his compatriot Enzo Fernandez, 21, was named the best young player.<\/p>\n<p>Argentina\u2019s victory over France saw them claim the World Cup for the third time following their triumphs in 1978 and 1986.<\/p>\n<p>            <!--  [embed]https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=videoseries[\/embed]<!--\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>--><\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"1JCRMJwoeRE\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"10th NDC National Delegates Congress happening at Accra Sports Stadium - Adom TV (17-12-22)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1JCRMJwoeRE?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lionel Messi on Sunday won the Golden Ball for the best player at this year\u2019s World Cup after leading Argentina to victory in the final against France. Messi scored twice in the final in Doha, taking his tally of goals at the tournament to seven, and also scored in the shoot-out as Argentina beat France [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1267214,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[6898,262,3994,2297,731,1000,784],"class_list":{"0":"post-1267213","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-ball","9":"tag-cup","10":"tag-golden","11":"tag-messi","12":"tag-player","13":"tag-wins","14":"tag-world"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1267213","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=1267213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1267213\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1267213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1267213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1267213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}