{"id":3503,"date":"2026-09-06T19:55:46","date_gmt":"2026-09-06T19:55:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/footballars.xyz\/?p=3503"},"modified":"2026-09-06T19:55:46","modified_gmt":"2026-09-06T19:55:46","slug":"who-can-stop-lamine-yamal-dominating-the-ballon-dor-for-the-next-decade-predicting-the-next-10-winners-of-the-golden-ball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/footballars.xyz\/?p=3503","title":{"rendered":"Who can stop Lamine Yamal dominating the Ballon d&#8217;Or for the next decade? Predicting the next 10 winners of the Golden Ball"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"article-body\">\n<div>\n<p>The World Cup will no doubt have a major bearing on the Ballon d&#8217;Or &#8211; as it so often does &#8211; and with the 2030 tournament being played in Morocco, Portugal and Spain, we&#8217;re looking mainly at players from those three countries here.<\/p>\n<p>It would obviously be a great thing for defenders if the outstanding Achraf Hakimi were to triumph but, knowing the voters, that&#8217;s just not going to happen.<\/p>\n<p>Midfielders obviously have more of a chance, as underlined by the recent wins for Luka Modric and Rodri, so the likes of Vitinha, Joao Neves and Pedri are undoubtedly in with a chance.<\/p>\n<p>But it&#8217;s impossible to look past the electrifying Yamal, who should light up a World Cup on home soil and belatedly take home his first Ballon d&#8217;Or.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-ng\/lists\/who-can-stop-lamine-yamal-dominating-ballon-dor-decade-predicting-next-10-winners\/blt8b22c0cca20ee29c\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The World Cup will no doubt have a major bearing on the Ballon d&#8217;Or &#8211;&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3504,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chelsea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/footballars.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/footballars.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/footballars.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/footballars.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/footballars.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/footballars.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3503\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/footballars.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/footballars.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/footballars.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/footballars.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}