{"id":355,"date":"2026-08-31T01:15:21","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T01:15:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/?p=355"},"modified":"2026-08-31T01:15:21","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T01:15:21","slug":"jose-mourinho-claims-another-real-madrid-star-is-in-the-ballon-dor-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/?p=355","title":{"rendered":"Jos\u00e9 Mourinho claims another Real Madrid star is \u2018in the Ballon d\u2019Or race\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Real Madrid head coach Jos\u00e9 Mourinho has this weekend revealed his take that a member of his side\u2019s midfield ranks should be considered amongst the frontrunners to lift the next Ballon d\u2019Or trophy.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Midfielder Bellingham has for his part dominated the media headlines in Spain\u2019s capital across the evening to date. This comes fresh off another standout performance in the colours of <a href=\"https:\/\/onefootball.com\/en\/team\/real-madrid-26\">Real Madrid<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>En route to a 4-0 <a href=\"https:\/\/onefootball.com\/en\/competition\/laliga-10\/fixtures\">La Liga<\/a> drubbing of M\u00e1laga, the 23-year-old proved himself the star of the show, netting one goal and forcing another amid a brilliant all-round display. This kept alive what has been a scintillating start to the new campaign on Bellingham\u2019s part.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>And as alluded to above, also taking into account the midfielder\u2019s performance level at the recent World Cup, one individual of the opinion that Bellingham\u2019s name should be on the shortlist for the upcoming Ballon d\u2019Or prize is none other than Jos\u00e9 Mourinho.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Speaking to the media on Sunday after Kylian Mbapp\u00e9 continued to build his case to be named world football\u2019s best player with another fine goal, Mourinho assured:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>\u201cJude Bellingham is in the Ballon d\u2019Or race. What he does as a midfielder is absolutely incredible!\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/onefootball.com\/en\/news\/jose-mourinho-claims-another-real-madrid-star-is-in-the-ballon-dor-race-43371262\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Real Madrid head coach Jos\u00e9 Mourinho has this weekend revealed his take that a member&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":356,"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-355","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\/08\/2Fv22Fphotobooth2Fcms2Fen2F433712623Fdate2026-08-31.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355","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=355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}