{"id":165980,"date":"2015-11-11T06:52:55","date_gmt":"2015-11-11T06:52:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=165980"},"modified":"2015-11-11T06:52:55","modified_gmt":"2015-11-11T06:52:55","slug":"zlatan-ibrahimovic-named-swedish-footballer-of-year-for-10th-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=165980","title":{"rendered":"Zlatan Ibrahimovic named Swedish footballer of year for 10th time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"story_continues_1\" class=\"introduction\">He may not have the Ballon d&#8217;Ors of Lionel Messi or Cristiano Ronaldo, but at least Zlatan Ibrahimovic can console himself with being, beyond doubt, the best player in Sweden.<\/p>\n<p>The Paris St-Germain striker has <span class=\"text\">won a record 10th Guldbollen<\/span><span class=\"external-link-icon\">\u00a0<\/span>(Golden Ball), the award given to the best male footballer in his home country.<\/p>\n<p>It is the ninth year in a row that Ibrahimovic has lifted the award.<\/p>\n<p>He won it for the first time in 2005, and has won it every year since former Arsenal midfielder Fredrik Ljungberg triumphed in 2006.<\/p>\n<p>No other player has won the award more than twice.<\/p>\n<p>This year Ibrahimovic won a historic French domestic treble, reached the quarter-finals of the Champions League and became PSG&#8217;s <span class=\"text\">all-time record scorer.<\/span><span class=\"external-link-icon\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Since his first Guldbollen win, Ibrahimovic has played for Juventus, Inter Milan, Barcelona, AC Milan and PSG, commanding transfer fees of \u00a3150m.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Source: BBC Sport<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He may not have the Ballon d&#8217;Ors of Lionel Messi or Cristiano Ronaldo, but at least Zlatan Ibrahimovic can console himself with being, beyond doubt, the best player in Sweden. The Paris St-Germain striker has won a record 10th Guldbollen\u00a0(Golden Ball), the award given to the best male footballer in his home country. It is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":165982,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[29,3],"class_list":["post-165980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-dr-mahamudu-bawumia","tag-ghana-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=165980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165980\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/165982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=165980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=165980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=165980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}