{"id":2126,"date":"2026-09-14T13:37:48","date_gmt":"2026-09-14T05:37:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/?p=2126"},"modified":"2026-09-14T13:37:50","modified_gmt":"2026-09-14T05:37:50","slug":"mbappe-and-i-are-the-best-but-i-think-i-deserve-the-ballon-dor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/14\/mbappe-and-i-are-the-best-but-i-think-i-deserve-the-ballon-dor\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Mbappe and I are the best, but I think I deserve the Ballon d&#8217;Or&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"563\" src=\"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/image-18.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2127\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/image-18.png 1000w, https:\/\/mktynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/image-18-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/mktynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/image-18-768x432.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Speaking on &#8216;Universo Valdano&#8217;, Lamine Yamal insisted he deserves to win this year&#8217;s Ballon d&#8217;Or, asserting that he and Mbappe sit alone at the pinnacle of world football.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The race for the Ballon d&#8217;Or is entering its decisive stretch. With just over a month to go before the winner is crowned \u2014 and with the 30 nominees already announced \u2014, Lamine Yamal and Kylian Mbapp\u00e9 stand out as two of the headline contenders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Blaugrana prodigy addressed the debate candidly on &#8216;Universo Valdano&#8217;. In a preview released by the &#8216;Movistar+&#8217; programme, the young Spaniard delivered a bold assessment: &#8220;Who would I give it (the Ballon d&#8217;Or) to? To the best player in the world. Who are they going to give it to? That&#8217;s a very long conversation. I sincerely believe that, as the best in the world, maybe there are two of us, but this year I deserve it. For me, Mbapp\u00e9 and I are the best, everyone who watches the games knows it,&#8221; he insisted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Only days ago, the Real Madrid forward had told French publication &#8216;L&#8217;\u00c9quipe&#8217; that no other player had made a stronger case to claim the sport&#8217;s ultimate individual honour.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaking on &#8216;Universo Valdano&#8217;, Lamine Yamal insisted he deserves to win this year&#8217;s Ballon d&#8217;Or, asserting that he<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2127,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2126"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2128,"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2126\/revisions\/2128"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}