{"id":14709,"date":"2026-11-11T05:45:53","date_gmt":"2026-11-11T05:45:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/11\/i-can-win-ballon-dor-award-ngumoha\/"},"modified":"2026-11-11T05:45:53","modified_gmt":"2026-11-11T05:45:53","slug":"i-can-win-ballon-dor-award-ngumoha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/11\/i-can-win-ballon-dor-award-ngumoha\/","title":{"rendered":"I Can Win Ballon d\u2019Or Award \u2014 Ngumoha"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>England winger Rio Ngumoha said teammate Harry Kane\u2019s recent Ballon d\u2019Or win can help the next generation of English players, including himself, follow in the Bayern Munich striker\u2019s footsteps and be recognised as the world\u2019s best.<\/p>\n<p>Ngumoha burst onto the scene last season with Liverpool and it ended with him earning a place in England\u2019s pre-World Cup camp, where he made a big impression.<\/p>\n<p>The 18-year-old is part of the England squad for Nations League matches with Croatia and Spain this week and is taking inspiration from the team\u2019s captain.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[Kane winning] has also helped English football now because everyone\u2019s seen one of us win the Ballon d\u2019Or, it is definitely encouraging many more people to want to be known as the best player in the world,\u201d Ngumoha said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor me, I would like to achieve it and I think I can do it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kane became the first Englishman in 25 years to win the Ballon d\u2019Or, beating Kylian Mbapp\u00e9 and Lamine Yamal to claim football\u2019s most prestigious individual award on Oct. 26.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI haven\u2019t spoken to him much, really,\u201d Ngumoha added of Kane. \u201cWhen I first came, I was a bit shy, so I was keeping myself to myself, but then they got me in the group, and just watching him train, watching all the players train, but especially him, like the finishing drills that you see.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Also Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.completesports.com\/bring-on-arsenal-ngumoha-warns-rivals-liverpool-are-unstoppable\/\">Bring On Arsenal  \u2013Ngumoha Warns Rivals Liverpool Are Unstoppable<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<aside class=\"csa1x-widget csbw-odds-card\" aria-label=\"Match odds\">\n<p><label class=\"csbw-oddschip\"><span class=\"csbw-oddsbar__label\">Show odds<\/span><button class=\"csbw-oddsswitch\" type=\"button\" role=\"switch\" aria-checked=\"false\" aria-label=\"Show odds\" data-csbw-global=\"1\"><i aria-hidden=\"true\"\/><\/button><\/label><\/p>\n<div class=\"csa1x-actions\">\n<details class=\"csa1x-tipster-details csbw-article-tips\">\n<summary class=\"csa1x-tipster-toggle\">Match prediction<\/summary>\n<\/details>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>\u201cYou can see why he won it and why he\u2019s known as the best striker, best player in the world.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDefinitely an inspiration to me, but just to every young player and probably every England player as well. He\u2019s a top guy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It is not that long ago that Ngumoha was growing up in a \u201ctough area\u201d in east London, where playing football with his friends ensured he kept on the straight and narrow.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGrowing up in Manor Park, everyone knows it\u2019s a tough area,\u201d he said. \u201cBut to be fair, I think the people around me and all my friends and family made sure I wasn\u2019t a part of anything that was too rough.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd I had football, which is a top, top escape route for things like crime and stuff.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd just having, like I said, having a strong support system around me, just to encourage me to just focus on football and also still be a kid, whether that\u2019s just going out to play football or going out to the movies or something, just little things like that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Source: <\/p>\n<div class=\"nSourse\">Complete Sports<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>England winger Rio Ngumoha said teammate Harry Kane\u2019s recent Ballon d\u2019Or win can help the next generation of English players, including himself, follow in the Bayern Munich striker\u2019s footsteps and&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14710,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14709\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}