{"id":5760,"date":"2026-09-25T21:15:37","date_gmt":"2026-09-25T21:15:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/?p=5760"},"modified":"2026-09-25T21:15:37","modified_gmt":"2026-09-25T21:15:37","slug":"barcelona-legend-sends-public-ballon-dor-message-to-lamine-yamal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/?p=5760","title":{"rendered":"Barcelona legend sends public Ballon d\u2019Or message to Lamine Yamal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Former <a href=\"https:\/\/onefootball.com\/en\/team\/barcelona-5\">Barcelona<\/a> star Samuel Eto\u2019o has taken to social media on Friday, to reveal his backing for current Blaugrana star <a href=\"https:\/\/onefootball.com\/en\/player\/lamine-yamal-514052\">Lamine Yamal<\/a> to lift this year\u2019s Ballon d\u2019Or.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Youngster Lamine is of course considered one of the very favourites to be named world football\u2019s standout player for the last 12 months at October\u2019s \u2018Golden Ball\u2019 ceremony in Paris.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>The 19-year-old is fresh off playing a starring role in both Barcelona\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/onefootball.com\/en\/competition\/laliga-10\/fixtures\">La Liga<\/a> triumph and that of <a href=\"https:\/\/onefootball.com\/en\/team\/spain-34\">Spain<\/a> at the World Cup, dazzling for club and country alike from his berth on the right flank.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>When it comes purely to numbers in front of goal, the Spaniard cannot quite compete with Harry Kane and Kylian Mbapp\u00e9, both of whom are also considered frontrunners to lift the prize.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>But adamant that Lamine is the rightful Ballon d\u2019Or winner, owing to his individual brilliance in all phases of the game, is the aforementioned Samuel Eto\u2019o.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Taking to his official Instagram account on Friday, ex-Barca goalscorer Eto\u2019o wrote:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>\u2018Ballon d\u2019Or of our hearts. Genius, Bold, Talented. Best of luck in this Ballon d\u2019Or race. Whatever the verdict is, one thing is certain: just like Ousmane, you are already the Ballon d\u2019Or of our hearts. Keep making us dream.\u2019<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/onefootball.com\/en\/news\/barcelona-legend-sends-public-ballon-dor-message-to-lamine-yamal-43521056\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Barcelona star Samuel Eto\u2019o has taken to social media on Friday, to reveal his&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5761,"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-5760","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\/2Fv22Fphotobooth2Fcms2Fen2F435210563Fdate2026-09-25.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5760","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=5760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5760\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}