{"id":5312,"date":"2026-09-22T21:52:07","date_gmt":"2026-09-22T21:52:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/?p=5312"},"modified":"2026-09-22T21:52:07","modified_gmt":"2026-09-22T21:52:07","slug":"another-real-madrid-star-reveals-his-ballon-dor-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/?p=5312","title":{"rendered":"Another Real Madrid star reveals his Ballon d\u2019Or vote"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Another leading member of the first-team ranks at La Liga giants <a href=\"https:\/\/onefootball.com\/en\/team\/real-madrid-26\">Real Madrid<\/a> has this week backed teammate <a href=\"https:\/\/onefootball.com\/en\/player\/kylian-mbappe-172496\">Kylian Mbapp\u00e9<\/a> to lift this year\u2019s Ballon d\u2019Or.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Frontman Mbapp\u00e9 is for his part of course amongst the very favourites to be named world football\u2019s standout performer for the last 12 months at next month\u2019s \u2018Golden Ball\u2019 ceremony.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>The 27-year-old is fresh off a 40+ goal season with Real Madrid in 2025\/26, followed by a record-breaking summer with France at the World Cup.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>The main argument against Mbapp\u00e9\u2019s Ballon d\u2019Or case is the lack of silverware to show for his goalscoring efforts, with neither his club nor country having ultimately added to their trophy cabinets over the last year.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>As alluded to above, though, one individual of the opinion that Mbapp\u00e9\u2019s individual excellence is nevertheless worthy of a first-ever Golden Ball is teammate and attacking partner-in-crime <a href=\"https:\/\/onefootball.com\/en\/player\/carlos-espi-577109\">Carlos Esp\u00ed<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Asked who he feels should emerge triumphant at October\u2019s Paris gala during an interview with <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/as.com\/futbol\/seleccion\/mourinho-me-pide-que-ayude-a-mbappe-f202609-n\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\">Diario AS<\/a><\/strong> this week, frontman Esp\u00ed did not hesitate, simply responding:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/onefootball.com\/en\/news\/another-real-madrid-star-reveals-his-ballon-dor-vote-43506338\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another leading member of the first-team ranks at La Liga giants Real Madrid has this&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5313,"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-5312","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\/2Fv22Fphotobooth2Fcms2Fen2F435063383Fdate2026-09-22.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5312","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=5312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5312\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}