{"id":426189,"date":"2026-01-20T20:29:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T20:29:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/426189\/"},"modified":"2026-01-20T20:29:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T20:29:09","slug":"foul-play-seve-ballesteros-statue-vanishes-from-hometown-in-spain-seve-ballesteros","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/426189\/","title":{"rendered":"Foul play? Seve Ballesteros statue vanishes from hometown in Spain | Seve Ballesteros"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Spanish authorities have launched an investigation into the disappearance of a statue commemorating <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/seve-ballesteros\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Seve Ballesteros<\/a> from his hometown of Pedrena, near Santander in northern Spain\u2019s Cantabria region.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">The Marina de Cudeyo Town Council confirmed the incident on Sunday through their social media accounts, describing the disappearance as \u201can unfortunate event\u201d and suggesting foul play. \u201cEverything indicates that it was a theft,\u201d the council stated.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">The statue, which has been a focal point in tiny Pedrena as a tribute to Ballesteros\u2019s enduring legacy, vanished sometime over the weekend, local police told Reuters, indicating that they are now working to identify those responsible and recover the tribute.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">\u201cIf anyone has observed any suspicious activity, especially in the last 24 hours, please report it to the police,\u201d the town council urged in a post on Facebook.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">The life-size statue of the late golfer was located in La Barquer\u00eda Park and was created in 2009 by Salvador Garc\u00eda Ceballos, two years before Ballesteros\u2019s death. It was permanently installed in 2017.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">The statue is made of bronze and depicts him in one of his most characteristic poses, with his fist raised in a triumphant gesture after winning the 1984 Open at St Andrews.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Spanish authorities have launched an investigation into the disappearance of a statue commemorating Seve Ballesteros from his hometown&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":426190,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[64,63,755,85],"class_list":["post-426189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=426189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426189\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/426190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=426189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=426189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=426189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}