{"id":756990,"date":"2022-01-19T12:16:52","date_gmt":"2022-01-19T12:16:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/19\/lewandowski-beats-messi-equals-ronaldo-record\/"},"modified":"2022-01-19T12:16:52","modified_gmt":"2022-01-19T12:16:52","slug":"lewandowski-beats-messi-equals-ronaldo-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/19\/lewandowski-beats-messi-equals-ronaldo-record\/","title":{"rendered":"Lewandowski Beats Messi, Equals Ronaldo Record"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Robert Lewandowski<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Munich forward Robert Lewandowski equalled Cristiano Ronaldo\u2019s FIFA The Best record when he won the award for a second time on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The Bayern Munich forward retained his FIFA The Best award following an incredible campaign in which he scored a Bundesliga record 41 goals, fighting off competition from Lionel Messi and Mohamed Salah.<\/p>\n<p>Paris Saint-Germain forward Lionel Messi, the 2019 winner, failed to add to his 2021 Ballon d\u2019Or award as he finished second, with Liverpool\u2019s Mohamed Salah in third place. Barcelona midfielder Alexia Putellas won the women\u2019s award.<\/p>\n<p>Chelsea manager Thomas Tuchel beat Italy\u2019s Roberto Mancini and Manchester City\u2019s Pep Guardiola to win the Manager of the Year award following success in the Champions League in 2021.<\/p>\n<p>Chelsea and Senegal\u2019s Edouard Mendy won the Goalkeeper of the Year award ahead of Gianluigi Donnarumma and Manuel Neuer, while Sevilla forward Erik Lamela won the Puskas Award for his \u201cRabona\u201d for Tottenham Hotspur against Arsenal.<\/p>\n<p>Denmark team and staff won the Fair Play award following their reaction to Christian Eriksen\u2019s cardiac arrest at Euro 2020. Denmark and Finland fans also received the Best Fan award for their spontaneous unified chanting in support of Eriksen after he was taken off the pitch.<\/p>\n<p>The award was first handed out in its present guise in 2016, after FIFA ended their five-year partnership with the Ballon d\u2019Or. Ronaldo, who was given a special award for breaking the international men\u2019s goal scoring record in 2021, won back-to-back awards in the first two years.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><!-- AI CONTENT END 2 -->\n\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robert Lewandowski Munich forward Robert Lewandowski equalled Cristiano Ronaldo\u2019s FIFA The Best record when he won the award for a second time on Monday. The Bayern Munich forward retained his FIFA The Best award following an incredible campaign in which he scored a Bundesliga record 41 goals, fighting off competition from Lionel Messi and Mohamed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":756991,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[1518,2296,2108,2297,998,2298],"class_list":["post-756990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-beats","tag-equals","tag-lewandowski","tag-messi","tag-record","tag-ronaldo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/756990","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=756990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/756990\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=756990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=756990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=756990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}