{"id":6963,"date":"2026-07-19T23:54:50","date_gmt":"2026-07-19T23:54:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/?p=6963"},"modified":"2026-07-19T23:54:50","modified_gmt":"2026-07-19T23:54:50","slug":"spains-rodri-wins-golden-ball-award-for-fifa-world-cups-best-player","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/?p=6963","title":{"rendered":"Spain&#039;s Rodri Wins Golden Ball Award For FIFA World Cup&#039;s Best Player"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"subnav-title ff-ffc bold fs-23 lh-25 uc pd-b-10\">\n            POPULAR SEARCHES\n          <\/p>\n<p class=\"subnav-title ff-ffc bold fs-23 lh-25 uc pd-b-10\">\n            BROWSE BY\n          <\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-a2155f14>Spain midfielder Rodri has won the 2026 FIFA World Cup Golden Ball winner for the tournament&#8217;s top player.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-a2155f14>Rodri has served as captain and the fulcrum in Luis de la Fuente&#8217;s side throughout the tournament, creating an unbreakable midfield in front of a defensive backline that only gave up one goal in the entire tournament.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-a2155f14>While Rodri did not score or assist during the tournament, he was credited with effective passing that allowed Spain to control the matches they played.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-a2155f14>It is the latest individual award for the Manchester City midfielder after having won the 2024 Ballon d&#8217;Or. He won Player of the Tournament after Spain&#8217;s triumph at the 2024 European Championship. He has named the best player at the 2023 Nations League finals, in which Spain also won.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-a2155f14>Rodri missed the majority of the 2024-25 season with Manchester City after suffering an ACL injury against Arsenal in early season action. He returned in May 2025.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>POPULAR SEARCHES BROWSE BY Spain midfielder Rodri has won the 2026 FIFA World Cup Golden Ball winner for the tournament&#8217;s top player. Rodri has served as captain and the fulcrum in Luis de la Fuente&#8217;s side throughout the tournament, creating an unbreakable midfield in front of a defensive backline that only gave up one goal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":6962,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-soccer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6963\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}