{"id":942166,"date":"2026-10-27T01:28:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-27T01:28:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/942166\/"},"modified":"2026-10-27T01:28:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-27T01:28:12","slug":"harry-kane-wins-ballon-dor-as-the-first-english-winner-in-25-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/942166\/","title":{"rendered":"Harry Kane wins Ballon d&#8217;Or as the first English winner in 25 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Harry Kane won the Ballon d&#8217;Or on Monday, local time in London, becoming the first Englishman to receive the prestigious prize in 25 years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">The Bayern Munich striker scored 73 goals for club and country last season, smashing scoring records in Germany and leading England to a third-place finish at the World Cup this past summer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Kane was the top vote-getter among nominees who included Lamine Yamal, Kylian Mbappe and Lionel Messi.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Earlier, Spain star Alexia Putellas won her third women&#8217;s Ballon d&#8217;Or after leading her former club Barcelona to multiple trophies last season, including the Women&#8217;s Champions League.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Putellas, who joined London City Lionesses in the off-season, also helped Spain win the Women&#8217;s Nations League in December.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">The 32-year-old midfielder ended Spain teammate Aitana Bonmati&#8217;s three-year reign.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Putellas won the prestigious award in back-to-back seasons \u2014 2021 and 2022 \u2014 before tearing her ACL and watching Bonmati rise to stardom.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Bonmati, who completed her women&#8217;s Ballon d&#8217;Or three-peat in 2025, was not on this year&#8217;s shortlist after breaking her leg in December.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">AP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Harry Kane won the Ballon d&#8217;Or on Monday, local time in London, becoming the first Englishman to receive&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":942167,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[5844,64,63,43243,596,29475,86434,588,85],"class_list":["post-942166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-abc-sport","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-ballon-dor","tag-football","tag-harry-kane","tag-michael-owen","tag-sport","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/942166","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=942166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/942166\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/942167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=942166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=942166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=942166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}