{"id":642329,"date":"2026-10-27T01:44:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-27T01:44:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/642329\/"},"modified":"2026-10-27T01:44:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-27T01:44:10","slug":"harry-kane-wins-footballs-ballon-dor-englands-first-winner-in-25-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/642329\/","title":{"rendered":"Harry Kane wins football\u2019s Ballon d\u2019Or, England\u2019s first winner in 25 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"FxSPvgIxedhFU\" style=\"display:none\">The last English player to win the Ballon d\u2019Or was Michael Owen in 2001.<\/p>\n<p class=\"FxSPvgIxedhFU\" style=\"display:none\">Alexia Putellas won the women\u2019s Ballon d\u2019Or for a stellar season leading the all-conquering Barcelona side to four trophies. Putellas, 32, who has since moved to London City Lionesses, claimed the award for the third time after successes in 2021 and 2022.<\/p>\n<p class=\"FxSPvgIxedhFU\" style=\"display:none\">Spain men\u2019s head coach Luis de la Fuente took out the men\u2019s coach of the year after leading the side to World Cup glory in the US.<\/p>\n<p class=\"FxSPvgIxedhFU\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cTeamwork makes us invincible. This is a great honour,\u201d de la Fuente said after collecting the award at a ceremony in London.<\/p>\n<p class=\"FxSPvgIxedhFU\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cThe secret is to work with very generous players that put the team first. We\u2019ve got such an amazing pool of talent, the best in the world, so as a coach I have such a great amount of talent to work with. So this is their success,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The last English player to win the Ballon d\u2019Or was Michael Owen in 2001. Alexia Putellas won the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":642330,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[17311,6654,2346,34498,314955,34499,36302,29236,1888,54573,9859,78,26502,20562,117451,111,139,69,213,147535,2044,1865,5273,10508,6202,1530],"class_list":["post-642329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-17311","tag-25year","tag-award","tag-ballon","tag-bayern","tag-dor","tag-ending","tag-englands","tag-first","tag-footballs","tag-harry","tag-in","tag-kane","tag-mens","tag-munich","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-sports","tag-striker","tag-time","tag-today","tag-wait","tag-winner","tag-wins","tag-years"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=642329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642329\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/642330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=642329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=642329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=642329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}