{"id":2028,"date":"2026-09-08T16:34:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-08T16:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/?p=2028"},"modified":"2026-09-08T16:34:00","modified_gmt":"2026-09-08T16:34:00","slug":"simon-proud-of-yashin-nomination-and-hopes-to-top-2026-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/?p=2028","title":{"rendered":"Sim\u00f3n proud of Yashin nomination and hopes to top 2026 list"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Sim\u00f3n has expressed pride at his 2026 Ballon d&#8217;Or Yashin Trophy nomination and says he hopes to top the list this year.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>He is in contention for a second time, having finished runner-up two years ago despite winning the Copa with Athletic, the Euros with <a href=\"https:\/\/onefootball.com\/en\/team\/spain-34\">Spain<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/onefootball.com\/en\/competition\/laliga-10\/fixtures\">La Liga<\/a>\u2019s Zamora Trophy. According to as.com, he was pipped then by Emiliano \u2018Dibu\u2019 Mart\u00ednez, a world champion with Argentina.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Sim\u00f3n admitted he once thought he might never return to the Yashin shortlist, so being back among the candidates leaves him very happy and proud.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Now a world champion with Spain, he collected the Golden Glove at the <a href=\"https:\/\/onefootball.com\/en\/competition\/world-cup-12\/fixtures\">World Cup<\/a> in the United States, Mexico and Canada. He conceded only one goal, against Belgium in the quarter-finals, a record he believes strengthens his case.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>He also sees the nomination as recognition of the work done at Athletic and in Lezama. For him, the main satisfaction is sharing the list with outstanding goalkeepers.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><em>\u201cArtificial intelligence was used to assist in creating this article based on reporting from the original source quoted.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/onefootball.com\/en\/news\/simon-proud-of-yashin-nomination-and-hopes-to-top-2026-list-43423935\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sim\u00f3n has expressed pride at his 2026 Ballon d&#8217;Or Yashin Trophy nomination and says he&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2029,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/2Fv22Fphotobooth2Fcms2Fen2F434239353Fdate2026-09-08.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2028\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}