{"id":357793,"date":"2025-12-19T09:32:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T09:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/357793\/"},"modified":"2025-12-19T09:32:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T09:32:09","slug":"youve-betrayed-yamal-jordi-slams-messi-over-voting-choice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/357793\/","title":{"rendered":"You\u2019ve betrayed Yamal \u2013 Jordi slams Messi over voting choice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanaweb.com\/GhanaHomePage\/SportsArchive\/FIFA-Best-Awards-You-ve-betrayed-Yamal-Jordi-slams-Messi-over-voting-choice-2014448?gallery=1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/28186379.295.jpg\" alt=\"Messi voted Barcelona\u2019s Lamine Yamal as his third choice\" title=\"Messi voted Barcelona\u2019s Lamine Yamal as his third choice\" width=\"295\" height=\"161\" \/> <\/a>Messi voted Barcelona\u2019s Lamine Yamal as his third choice<\/p>\n<p id=\"article-123\">El Chiringuito pundit, Jota Jordi has hit out at Argentina captain Lionel Messi over his choice of voting during the 2025 FIFA Best Awards.<\/p>\n<p>Recall that Messi had voted Paris Saint-Germain forward Ousmane Dembele as his first choice to win the FIFA Best award for men\u2019s category.<\/p>\n<p>The Inter Miami forward then voted Real Madrid\u2019s Kylian Mbappe as his second choice and Barcelona\u2019s Lamine Yamal as his third choice.<\/p>\n<p>However, Jordi was not pleased with Messi as he highlighted how the eight-time Ballon d\u2019Or winner chose Mbappe, a Real Madrid player, over Yamal.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a stab in the back to Lamine Yamal, a betrayal,\u201d Jordi said as quoted by Sportskeeda while speaking on Messi voting Mbappe ahead of Yamal.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne plays for Real Madrid and the other wears the 10 at Bar\u00e7a. I\u2019m saying this very seriously; this is very significant.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Yamal also finished second in the 2025 Ballon d\u2019Or rankings behind Dembele after helping Barcelona to win a domestic double last season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Messi voted Barcelona\u2019s Lamine Yamal as his third choice El Chiringuito pundit, Jota Jordi has hit out at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":357794,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[403,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-357793","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-soccer","9":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=357793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357793\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/357794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=357793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=357793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=357793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}