{"id":22889,"date":"2025-08-07T13:23:36","date_gmt":"2025-08-07T17:23:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/ballon-dor-yamal-pedri-and-ruiz-on-the-list-psg-dominates-barca-present\/"},"modified":"2025-08-07T13:23:36","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T17:23:36","slug":"ballon-dor-yamal-pedri-and-ruiz-on-the-list-psg-dominates-barca-present","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/nationals\/ballon-dor-yamal-pedri-and-ruiz-on-the-list-psg-dominates-barca-present\/","title":{"rendered":"Ballon d&#8217;Or: Yamal, Pedri and Ruiz on the list; PSG dominates, Bar\u00e7a present."},"content":{"rendered":"Paris is the venue for the eagerly awaited Ballon d&#8217;Or ceremony, where the 30 candidates who will compete for this prestigious award are revealed. The list, dominated by PSG with nine names, has generated great expectation.\n\n<h2>Spanish Representation in the Race for the Ballon d&#8217;Or<\/h2>\n\nThe Spanish representation is notable, with three outstanding footballers on the list. Lamine Yamal, Pedri, and Fabi\u00e1n Ruiz are the representatives of Spain, who will seek to take the prize home.\n\nFC Barcelona is positioned as the second club with the most candidates, with a total of four players. In addition to Yamal and Pedri, Robert Lewandowski and Raphinha are also on the list.\n\nLamine Yamal, along with Ousmane Dembel\u00e9, are emerging as key figures in the contest. Pedri, for his part, seeks to excel for the second consecutive year.\n\nRobert Lewandowski, with nine nominations, and Raphinha, who debuts on this list, add excitement to the competition.\n\nReal Madrid has three representatives: Vinicius, Jude Bellingham, and Kylian Mbapp\u00e9, the latter thanks to his outstanding performance in the previous season.\n\nSpain, along with Portugal, are the third countries with the most representatives on the list, surpassed by England and France.\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Women&#8217;s Ballon d&#8217;Or: The Spanish in the Fight<\/h2>\n\n\nThe Women&#8217;s Ballon d&#8217;Or also promises excitement. Aitana Bonmat\u00ed, Alexia Putellas, Mariona Caldentey, Esther Gonz\u00e1lez, Patri Guijarro and Claudia Pina are the six Spanish footballers nominated.\n\nThe list includes Marta&#8217;s return and Amanda Gutierres&#8217; first nomination.\n\nThe European Championship has propelled five English players onto the list, who compete with the Spanish, dominant in recent editions.\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/estaticos.efe.com\/efecom\/recursos\/imagen\/2024\/06\/27\/media\/putellas_efe.jpg\" alt=\"Alexia Putellas\" title=\"\"><\/figure>\n\n\nAlexia Putellas, with an outstanding season, and Aitana Bonmat\u00ed, compete for the award despite the challenges in the Champions League and the European Championship.\n\nClaudia Pina and Ewa Pajor are some of the threats, along with Patri Guijarro and Mariona Caldentey.\n\nThe English women, champions of Europe, have an advantage, with Alessia Russo, Leah Williamson, Chloe Kelly, Lucy Bronze and Hannah Hampton on the list.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paris is the venue for the eagerly awaited Ballon d&#8217;Or ceremony, where the 30 candidates who will compete for this prestigious award are revealed. The list, dominated by PSG with nine names, has generated great expectation. Spanish Representation in the Race for the Ballon d&#8217;Or The Spanish representation is notable, with three outstanding footballers on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22890,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[997],"tags":[2549,2123,1426,800],"class_list":{"0":"post-22889","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nationals","8":"tag-ballon-dor","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-lamine-yamal","11":"tag-pedri"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22889\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}