{"id":948440,"date":"2026-10-27T18:20:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-27T18:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/948440\/"},"modified":"2026-10-27T18:20:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-27T18:20:10","slug":"harry-kane-triumphs-with-historic-ballon-dor-win-the-latest-soccer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/948440\/","title":{"rendered":"Harry Kane triumphs with historic Ballon d\u2019Or win &#8211; The Latest | Soccer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Harry Kane is the men\u2019s Ballon d\u2019Or winner for 2026, the first Englishman to win the trophy in 25 years. At a lavish ceremony at the Palladium Theatre in London, Kane unexpectedly won ahead of co-favourites Lamine Yamal of Barcelona and Kylian Mbapp\u00e9 of Real Madrid. In a contest that has been critiqued for promoting individualism and celebrity in sport, Lucy Hough speaks to the Guardian\u2019s chief sports writer, Barney Ronay, about the symbolism of Kane\u2019s win<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Harry Kane is the men\u2019s Ballon d\u2019Or winner for 2026, the first Englishman to win the trophy in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":948441,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,561,82],"class_list":["post-948440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/948440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=948440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/948440\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/948441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=948440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=948440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=948440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}