{"id":180926,"date":"2016-01-11T16:40:54","date_gmt":"2016-01-11T16:40:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=180926"},"modified":"2016-01-11T16:40:54","modified_gmt":"2016-01-11T16:40:54","slug":"messi-neymar-or-ronaldo-race-for-the-2015-ballon-dor-infographic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=180926","title":{"rendered":"Messi, Neymar or Ronaldo: Race for the 2015 Ballon d&#8217;Or [Infographic]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Messi or Ronaldo? Who is the best player in the world?<\/p>\n<p>This was inevitable the question which has dominated almost every Ballon d&#8217;Or event since 2009, and for good reason. Both have been superb, a class above the \u00a0rest during\u00a0that time, breaking and setting records at will.<\/p>\n<p>The duo&#8217;s dominance has often relegated the third nominee for the award to the background, virtually a supporting role despite their undoubted brilliance; Manuel Neuer and Franck Ribery in recent years.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-180947 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/guys.jpg\" alt=\"guys\" width=\"574\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p>However, in Neymar, the two have found a competitor who could well give them their toughest challenge yet and claim the top prize.<\/p>\n<p>With 2016 awards set for Zurich tonight, <strong>Citi Sports<\/strong> presents you with the stats which might play a part in who carries the famous Golden Ball home<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-180949\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/2015-670x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"2015\" width=\"620\" height=\"948\" \/><\/p>\n<p>By: Edwn Kwakofi\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Messi or Ronaldo? Who is the best player in the world? This was inevitable the question which has dominated almost every Ballon d&#8217;Or event since 2009, and for good reason. Both have been superb, a class above the \u00a0rest during\u00a0that time, breaking and setting records at will. The duo&#8217;s dominance has often relegated the third [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"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":[142,2419],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-180926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-football","category-infographics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180926","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\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=180926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180926\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=180926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=180926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=180926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}