{"id":24261,"date":"2018-12-04T12:26:13","date_gmt":"2018-12-04T12:26:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=24261"},"modified":"2018-12-04T12:26:13","modified_gmt":"2018-12-04T12:26:13","slug":"modric-wins-ballon-dor-breaking-ronaldo-messi-dominance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=24261","title":{"rendered":"Modric wins Ballon d&#8217;Or, breaking Ronaldo &amp; Messi dominance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\"> (CNN)<\/cite>Luka Modric has won the 2018 Ballon d&#8217;Or, becoming the first player other than Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo to receive the award since 2007. <\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">The midfielder, 33, who <a href=\"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2018\/07\/13\/football\/croatia-world-cup-france-final-russia-2018-spt-int\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">helped Croatia reach the men&#8217;s World Cup final <\/a>in Russia in the summer, is the first Croatian to win the prestigious prize, which is voted for by journalists. <\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">On a historic evening in Paris, the ceremony had a women&#8217;s category for the first time since its inception in 1956, with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2018\/12\/04\/football\/martin-solveig-ada-hegerberg-spt-intl\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Norway&#8217;s Ada Hegerberg<\/a> crowned the inaugural women&#8217;s Ballon d&#8217;Or winner. <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CNN)Luka Modric has won the 2018 Ballon d&#8217;Or, becoming the first player other than Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo to receive the award since 2007. The midfielder, 33, who helped Croatia reach the men&#8217;s World Cup final in Russia in the summer, is the first Croatian to win the prestigious prize, which is voted for&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":24262,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24261\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/24262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}