{"id":15866,"date":"2020-07-21T11:54:49","date_gmt":"2020-07-21T06:54:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/?p=15866"},"modified":"2020-07-21T11:54:49","modified_gmt":"2020-07-21T06:54:49","slug":"2020-football-awards-axed-due-to-coronavirus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/archives\/15866","title":{"rendered":"2020 football awards axed due to coronavirus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>ANKARA<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>One of the most prestigious awards for football player of the year, the Ballon d&#8217;Or, will not be given out in 2020 due to the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There won&#8217;t be a Ballon d&#8217;Or France Football in 2020,&#8221; awards organizer France Football magazine said in a statement on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>France Football said the award will skip a year due to the uneven conditions as 2020 is an extraordinary year due to the virus.<\/p>\n<p>Starting in 1956, France Football has awarded its Ballon d&#8217;Or trophy annually to the world&#8217;s best male football player.<\/p>\n<p>A separate women\u2019s award, Ballon d&#8217;Or Feminin, was added in 2018.<\/p>\n<p>Last December, Barcelona&#8217;s Argentine superstar Lionel Messi won the Ballon d&#8217;Or award for the sixth time.<\/p>\n<p>US midfielder Megan Rapinoe, captain of the US National Soccer Team, won the women\u2019s award.<\/p>\n<p>The Ballon d&#8217;Or was organized by FIFA and France Football until 2015. After they split, FIFA has handed out its own awards since 2016.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ANKARA One of the most prestigious awards for football player of the year, the Ballon d&#8217;Or, will not be given out in 2020 due to the coronavirus pandemic. &#8220;There won&#8217;t be a Ballon d&#8217;Or France Football in 2020,&#8221; awards organizer France Football magazine said in a statement on Monday. France Football said the award will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":15867,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15866"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15866\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15868,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15866\/revisions\/15868"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}