{"id":666125,"date":"2026-10-26T20:22:22","date_gmt":"2026-10-26T20:22:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/666125\/"},"modified":"2026-10-26T20:22:22","modified_gmt":"2026-10-26T20:22:22","slug":"ballon-dor-chaos-as-winners-leaked-before-ceremony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/666125\/","title":{"rendered":"Ballon d&#8217;Or chaos as winners &#8216;leaked&#8217; before ceremony"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Ballon d&#8217;Or website has published three separate articles naming Harry Kane, Lamine Yamal and Kylian Mbappe as winner of the 2026 men\u2019s award.<\/p>\n<p>Hours before the ceremony for the 70th edition of the individual accolade at Palladium Theatre in London, chaos descended when a link emerged announcing England captain Kane had received the honour.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A record-breaking welter of league and cup goals in 2025\/26 has propelled Harry Kane to Ballon d\u2019Or success,&#8221; read the story on the official website of the prestigious France Football prize.<\/p>\n<p>However, further links were subsequently found to articles hailing Real Madrid forward Mbappe and Barcelona winger Yamal as victors.<\/p>\n<p>!Portraits of some Ballon d&#8217;Or nominees prepared by Ballondor.com were inadvertently published online,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/ballondor.com\/live\/follow-the-ballon-dor-2026-ceremony-and-rankings-live\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the organisers said in a statement<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;These articles had been prepared in advance for all nominees in the event of a win. They do not, in any way, reveal the podium, which remains unknown to everyone at this time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>All three versions have now been taken down.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Ballon d&#8217;Or website has published three separate articles naming Harry Kane, Lamine Yamal and Kylian Mbappe as&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":666126,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-666125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=666125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666125\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/666126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=666125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=666125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=666125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}