{"id":177780,"date":"2025-09-05T07:10:21","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T06:10:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/ballon-dor-2025-voting-for-winner-closes"},"modified":"2025-09-05T08:36:48","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T07:36:48","slug":"ballon-dor-2025-voting-for-winner-closes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/ballon-dor-2025-voting-for-winner-closes","title":{"rendered":"Ballon d\u2019Or 2025: Voting for winner closes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>The voting period for the 2025 Ballon d\u2019Or has now closed.<\/p>\n<p>The winner will be announced at the The\u0301a\u0302tre du Cha\u0302telet in Paris on September 22.<\/p>\n<p>Thirty finalists are in the running for this prestigious award, which honours the best player of the year.<\/p>\n<p>Ousmane Dembe\u0301le\u0301, Lamine Yamal, and Achraf Hakimi are believed to be the frontrunners for the prize.<\/p>\n<p>The finalists will be selected based on three criteria: individual performances, collective achievements\/trophies won, and class\/fair play.<\/p>\n<p>Journalists from the top 100 FIFA-ranked nations take part in the voting process.<\/p>\n<p>Each one of them will select their top 10 players in order and the eventual winner determined by the total points accumulated.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Nigeria<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. The voting period for the 2025 Ballon d\u2019Or has now closed. The winner will be announced at the The\u0301a\u0302tre du Cha\u0302telet in Paris on September 22. Thirty finalists are in the running for this prestigious award, which honours the best player of the year. Ousmane Dembe\u0301le\u0301, Lamine Yamal, and Achraf Hakimi are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":177779,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,18],"tags":[15718,254],"class_list":["post-177780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-sport","tag-ballon-dor-2025","tag-nigeria"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Ballon d\u2019Or 2025: Voting for winner closes - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The voting period for the 2025 Ballon d\u2019Or has now closed. 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