{"id":4894,"date":"2026-09-20T21:06:19","date_gmt":"2026-09-20T21:06:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/?p=4894"},"modified":"2026-09-20T21:06:19","modified_gmt":"2026-09-20T21:06:19","slug":"sevilla-boss-bemoans-barcelona-stars-ballon-dor-snub","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/?p=4894","title":{"rendered":"Sevilla boss bemoans Barcelona star\u2019s Ballon d\u2019Or snub"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/onefootball.com\/en\/team\/sevilla-28\">Sevilla<\/a> head coach Luis Garc\u00eda has this weekend admitted that he was left baffled by the omission of Barcelona star <a href=\"https:\/\/onefootball.com\/en\/player\/raphinha-172081\">Raphinha<\/a> from the shortlist for this year\u2019s Ballon d\u2019Or.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>This of course comes with Garc\u00eda fresh off seeing his side torn apart by the in-form Brazilian.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Barcelona made the trip to Sevilla on Saturday night, eyeing a seventh successive victory to open the defence of their <a href=\"https:\/\/onefootball.com\/en\/competition\/laliga-10\/fixtures\">La Liga<\/a> crown. And when all was said and done, this is precisely what the Blaugrana picked up.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>After they fell into an early deficit in Andalusia, the aforementioned Raphinha exploded into life, notching all three of his side\u2019s goals in a 3-1 triumph.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>This marked the former Leeds United man\u2019s 2nd successive hat-trick, in the space of just four days.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Just a week on from his absence from the 30-man shortlist for the 2026 Ballon d\u2019Or being confirmed, the aforementioned Luis Garc\u00eda therefore made use of the opportunity to speak out in defence of Raphinha:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>\u201cThere are some things that I can\u2019t understand in football\u2026 how is Raphinha out of the Ballon d\u2019Or top 30?! Raphinha not being nominated is something that I don\u2019t understand.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/onefootball.com\/en\/news\/sevilla-boss-bemoans-barcelona-stars-ballon-dor-snub-43495621\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sevilla head coach Luis Garc\u00eda has this weekend admitted that he was left baffled by&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4895,"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":true,"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-4894","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\/2Fv22Fphotobooth2Fcms2Fen2F434956213Fdate2026-09-20.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4894","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=4894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4894\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}