{"id":20180,"date":"2015-01-13T13:36:27","date_gmt":"2015-01-13T21:36:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=20180"},"modified":"2015-01-13T13:36:27","modified_gmt":"2015-01-13T21:36:27","slug":"queiroz-and-nekounam-voted-ronaldo-for-ballon-dor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2015\/01\/13\/queiroz-and-nekounam-voted-ronaldo-for-ballon-dor\/","title":{"rendered":"Queiroz and Nekounam voted Ronaldo for Ballon d&#8217;Or"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TehranTimes &#8211; Zurich, <strong>As the prestigious Ballon d&#8217;Or award ceremony concluded on Monday, Tehran Times have revealed that Team Melli head coach Carlos Queiroz and Captain Javad Nekounam both voted for Portugal&#8217;s Cristiano Ronaldo.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Iran coach Carlos Queiroz selected his compatriot Cristiano Ronaldo as the best player of the year 2014.<\/p>\n<p>Ronaldo successfully defended his world player of the year status convincingly with 37.66% of all votes, winning for the third time.<\/p>\n<p>Barcelona and Argentina star Lionel Messi \u2013 who won four years in a row until Ronaldo beat him last year, was second on 15.76%. He was narrowly ahead of Bayern Munich and Germany keeper Manuel Neuer, who had 15.72%.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s the third time total that the Portuguese player has won the award.<\/p>\n<p>Iran captain Javad Nekounam also voted for Ronaldo, who was followed by Messi and Neuer in second and third place respectively.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TehranTimes &#8211; Zurich, As the prestigious Ballon d&#8217;Or award ceremony concluded on Monday, Tehran Times&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":20183,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,91],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-c20-other-news"],"views":3392,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26307"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20180\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}