{"id":4514,"date":"2023-10-30T21:54:56","date_gmt":"2023-10-30T21:54:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/digiconceptng.com\/blog\/?p=4514"},"modified":"2023-10-30T22:10:38","modified_gmt":"2023-10-30T22:10:38","slug":"lionel-messi-wins-eight-ballon-dor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/digiconceptng.com\/blog\/lionel-messi-wins-eight-ballon-dor\/","title":{"rendered":"Lionel Messi wins eight Ballon d&#8217;Or!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"digic-4231653868\" class=\"digic-bedfore-post digic-entity-placement\"><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-4104817480020566\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-4104817480020566\" \ndata-ad-slot=\"\" \ndata-ad-format=\"auto\"><\/ins>\n<script> \n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); \n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p>Inter Miami star Lionel Messi beats Erling Haaland to 2023 Ballon d&#8217;Or after leading Argentina to World Cup glory in 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" data-src=\"https:\/\/digiconceptng.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Lionel-Messi-wins-eight-Ballon-dOr-1-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"Lionel Messi wins eight Ballon d'Or! \" class=\"wp-image-4515 lazyload\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/digiconceptng.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Lionel-Messi-wins-eight-Ballon-dOr-1-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/digiconceptng.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Lionel-Messi-wins-eight-Ballon-dOr-1-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/digiconceptng.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Lionel-Messi-wins-eight-Ballon-dOr-1-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/digiconceptng.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Lionel-Messi-wins-eight-Ballon-dOr-1-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/digiconceptng.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Lionel-Messi-wins-eight-Ballon-dOr-1.jpg 2048w\" data-sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 1024px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 1024\/576;\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Prior to the glamorous event in Paris, Messi was the clear favorite to win the Golden Ball, and on Monday night, Chelsea great Didier Drogba did actually give him the trophy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What gave Messi edge in the Ballon d&#8217;or quest?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Messi has now won the title of world&#8217;s greatest men&#8217;s player eight times, and his exploits in the 2022 World Cup went a big way toward guaranteeing that he took home the individual trophy. The captain of Argentina scored in each of their matches throughout the knockout stages, thus bringing an end to their long quest for a world championship. Messi contributed 16 goals and 16 assists to help Paris Saint-Germain win the Ligue 1 championship at the club level.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Messi and Haaland have dominated this year&#8217;s Ballon d&#8217;Or conversation. The Norwegian was instrumental in helping Pep Guardiola&#8217;s team win a historic triple last season, scoring an absurd 52 goals for Man City.<\/p><div id=\"digic-1474580671\" class=\"digic-get-free-material digic-entity-placement\"><p>Get <a title=\"TikTok SEO Cheats\" href=\"https:\/\/digiconceptng.com\/blog\/download\/tiktok-seo-cheats\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>TikTok SEO Cheat<\/strong><\/a> here<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Read also: <a href=\"https:\/\/digiconceptng.com\/blog\/bonmati-wins-womens-ballon-dor-2023\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Bonmati wins Women&#8217;s Ballon d&#8217;Or 2023<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What to expect?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Messi is presently playing for Inter Miami of the Major League Soccer, but he is taking some well-earned time off as they did not qualify for the playoffs. 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Prior to the glamorous event in Paris, Messi was the clear favorite to win the Golden Ball, and on Monday night, Chelsea great Didier Drogba did actually give him the trophy. What gave Messi [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4515,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[196,108],"class_list":{"0":"post-4514","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-ballon-dor","9":"tag-lionel-messi"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/digiconceptng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/digiconceptng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/digiconceptng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digiconceptng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digiconceptng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/digiconceptng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4514\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digiconceptng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/digiconceptng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digiconceptng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digiconceptng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}