{"id":38066,"date":"2017-12-30T11:24:06","date_gmt":"2017-12-30T11:24:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/?p=38066"},"modified":"2017-12-30T11:24:06","modified_gmt":"2017-12-30T11:24:06","slug":"ballon-dor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/ballon-dor\/","title":{"rendered":"Ballon d&#8217;Or"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Question: On December 7, 2017, who was awarded the Ballon d&#8217;Or, the prestigious award of Football?<\/strong><br \/>\n(a) Nemar<br \/>\n(b) Cristiano Ronaldo<br \/>\n(c) Manual Neur<br \/>\n(d) Lionel Messi<br \/>\n<strong>Answer: (b)\u00a0<\/strong><strong><br \/>\nRelated Facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li>The annual award &#8216;Ballon d&#8217;Or, 2017&#8217; given by the French weekly magazine &#8216;France Football&#8217; won by Cristiano Ronaldo of Portugal won for the fifth time. (December 7, 2017)<\/li>\n<li>These include three Ballon d&#8217;Or and 2 FIFA Ballon d&#8217;Or Awards.<\/li>\n<li>Ronaldo was given the award in Paris.<\/li>\n<li>Ronaldo scored a total of 946 points, leaving behind Lionel Messi (670 points) of Argentina.<\/li>\n<li>Ronaldo now equals Messi&#8217;s record of winning this award five times.<\/li>\n<li>Ronaldo won this award in the year 2008, 2013, 2014, 2016 and 2017.<\/li>\n<li>On the other hand Messi has won this award in the year 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2015.<\/li>\n<li>Football journalists around the world vote for this award.<\/li>\n<li>Ronaldo plays for \u201cReal Madrid\u201d the Spanish football club.<\/li>\n<li>Although between 2010 and 2015, an agreement was made with FIFA\u00a0and the award was temporarily merged with the\u00a0FIFA World Player of the Year, and known as the FIFA Ballon d&#8217;Or, but in 2016 the award been reversed back to Ballon d&#8217;Or while FIFA also renamed its traditional award.<\/li>\n<li>Ballon d&#8217;Or Award of the year 2016 was too won by Cristiano Ronaldo.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Reference: <\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ballon_d%27Or_2017\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ballon_d%27Or_2017<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.francefootball.fr\/news\/Video-cristiano-ronaldo-presente-son-cinquieme-ballon-d-or-france-football-au-public-de-santiago-bernabeu\/857899\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.francefootball.fr\/news\/Video-cristiano-ronaldo-presente-son-cinquieme-ballon-d-or-france-football-au-public-de-santiago-bernabeu\/857899<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: On December 7, 2017, who was awarded the Ballon d&#8217;Or, the prestigious award of Football? (a) Nemar (b) Cristiano Ronaldo (c) Manual Neur (d) Lionel Messi Answer: (b)\u00a0 Related Facts: The annual award &#8216;Ballon d&#8217;Or, 2017&#8217; given by the French weekly magazine &#8216;France Football&#8217; won by Cristiano Ronaldo of Portugal won for the fifth [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":37448,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1147],"tags":[2617],"class_list":["post-38066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ah","tag-awards-honors-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38066\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}