{"id":35590,"date":"2017-12-08T00:50:34","date_gmt":"2017-12-07T19:50:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=35590"},"modified":"2017-12-08T00:53:45","modified_gmt":"2017-12-07T19:53:45","slug":"ballon-dor-2017-cristiano-ronaldo-wins-award-for-the-fifth-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=35590","title":{"rendered":"Ballon d&#8217;Or 2017: Cristiano Ronaldo wins award for the fifth time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>PARIS , DEC 07 (TNS):<\/strong> Cristiano Ronaldo\u00a0has won his fifth Ballon d\u2019Or\u00a0award, beating\u00a0Lionel Messi\u00a0and Neymar to the prize to\u00a0match\u00a0his Barcelona rival\u2019s\u00a0record haul.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-35592\" src=\"https:\/\/tns.world\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Ballon-Dor-nominees.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"644\" height=\"366\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tns.world\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Ballon-Dor-nominees.jpg 644w, https:\/\/tns.world\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Ballon-Dor-nominees-300x170.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 644px) 100vw, 644px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The organiser, France Football,\u00a0announced Ronaldo as the winner in a ceremony in Paris on\u00a0Thursday evening after he was voted\u00a0the world\u2019s best player by a selection of leading journalists, national coaches and their captains.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-35594\" src=\"https:\/\/tns.world\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/ronaldo-pic.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"630\" height=\"379\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tns.world\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/ronaldo-pic.jpg 630w, https:\/\/tns.world\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/ronaldo-pic-300x180.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Ronaldo scored five goals against Bayern Munich across two legs in the\u00a0quarter-finals, including a hat-trick at the Bernebeu, struck another hat-trick to knockout Atletico Madrid in the semi-finals and\u00a0scored twice in the\u00a0final as Real saw off Juventus\u00a04-1 in Cardiff.<\/p>\n<p>Messi\u00a0came\u00a0second in the voting after\u00a0finishing\u00a0on top of La Liga\u2019s scoring charts with 37 goals at the end of the 2016-17 season as Barca\u00a0missed out on the title by three points.<\/p>\n<p>Neymar\u00a0finished third after an impressive year both at Barcelona and PSG.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PARIS , DEC 07 (TNS): Cristiano Ronaldo\u00a0has won his fifth Ballon d\u2019Or\u00a0award, beating\u00a0Lionel Messi\u00a0and Neymar to the prize to\u00a0match\u00a0his Barcelona rival\u2019s\u00a0record haul. The organiser, France Football,\u00a0announced Ronaldo as the winner in a ceremony in Paris on\u00a0Thursday evening after he was voted\u00a0the world\u2019s best player by a selection of leading journalists, national coaches and their captains. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35593,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[874,330],"class_list":["post-35590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-paris","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35590"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35590\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35597,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35590\/revisions\/35597"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/35593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}