{"id":2621,"date":"2026-09-11T18:01:25","date_gmt":"2026-09-11T18:01:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/?p=2621"},"modified":"2026-09-11T18:01:25","modified_gmt":"2026-09-11T18:01:25","slug":"confirmed-barcelona-superstar-named-la-liga-player-of-the-month-for-august","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/?p=2621","title":{"rendered":"Confirmed: Barcelona superstar named La Liga Player of the Month for August"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Following a brilliant start to the 2026\/27 campaign, <a href=\"https:\/\/onefootball.com\/en\/team\/barcelona-5\">FC Barcelona<\/a> winger and club captain <a href=\"https:\/\/onefootball.com\/en\/player\/raphinha-172081\">Raphinha<\/a> has been voted the <a href=\"https:\/\/onefootball.com\/en\/competition\/laliga-10\/fixtures\">La Liga<\/a> Player of the Month for August.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>The 29-year-old Brazilian international has easily been the best player not only in Spain but all of Europe in the early parts of the new season.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Raphinha has already plundered eight goals in five games across all competitions for Barcelona this season, helping the team maintain a 100% record at the start of the season.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Of his eight goals, six have come in La Liga, and five in the month of August from the Catalans\u2019 first three matches of the season.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Indeed, Raphinha began his campaign with a brace against Elche before scoring once against Athletic Club, which was followed by another brace versus Rayo Vallecano.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Deployed in an unfamiliar role as a centre-forward, the Brazilian winger is thriving in Hansi Flick\u2019s team, leading from the front, not only in terms of goals and assists, but also with his off-the-ball work rate and defensive contribution.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>As such, he has been deservedly named the La Liga Player of the Month for August, beating competition from the likes of Jude Bellingham, Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, Nahuel Tenaglia, and Alex Baena.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/onefootball.com\/en\/news\/confirmed-barcelona-superstar-named-la-liga-player-of-the-month-for-august-43442460\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following a brilliant start to the 2026\/27 campaign, FC Barcelona winger and club captain Raphinha&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2622,"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-2621","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\/2Fv22Fphotobooth2Fcms2Fen2F434424603Fdate2026-09-11.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2621","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=2621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2621\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}