{"id":1576,"date":"2026-10-26T21:31:36","date_gmt":"2026-10-26T21:31:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/26\/ballon-dor-2026-spains-luis-de-la-fuente-wins-mens-coach-of-the-year-award\/"},"modified":"2026-10-26T21:31:36","modified_gmt":"2026-10-26T21:31:36","slug":"ballon-dor-2026-spains-luis-de-la-fuente-wins-mens-coach-of-the-year-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/26\/ballon-dor-2026-spains-luis-de-la-fuente-wins-mens-coach-of-the-year-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Ballon d\u2019Or 2026: Spain\u2019s Luis de la Fuente wins men\u2019s Coach of the Year award"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img width=\"680\" height=\"485\" src=\"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Ballon-dOr-2026-Spains-Luis-de-la-Fuente-wins-mens-Coach-of-the-Year-award.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt=\"Ballon d\u2019Or 2026: Spain\u2019s Luis de la Fuente wins men\u2019s Coach of the Year award\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\" srcset=\"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Ballon-dOr-2026-Spains-Luis-de-la-Fuente-wins-mens-Coach-of-the-Year-award.jpg 680w, https:\/\/cdn.vanguardngr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/delafuente-300x214.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 680px) 100vw, 680px\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Spain national team manager Luis de la Fuente has won the Men\u2019s Coach of the Year award at the 2026 Ballon d\u2019Or ceremony after leading Spain to victory at the 2026 FIFA World Cup.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">De la Fuente emerged victorious ahead of fellow nominees Mikel Arteta of Arsenal, Luis Enrique of Paris Saint-Germain, Vincent Kompany of Bayern Munich and Unai Emery of Aston Villa.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Former Liverpool manager Rafa Benitez presented the award, although the announcement was briefly interrupted by an unexpected mix-up involving the winner\u2019s name on the card.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Benitez eventually announced De la Fuente as the winner, prompting the Spanish coach to shake hands with Emery and Spain international Lamine Yamal before making his way to the stage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The award adds to De la Fuente\u2019s achievements with the Spanish national team, following Spain\u2019s triumph at the 2026 FIFA World Cup.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/vanguardngr.com\/\">Vanguard News<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanguardngr.com\/2026\/10\/ballon-dor-2026-spains-luis-de-la-fuente-wins-mens-coach-of-the-year-award\/\">Ballon d\u2019Or 2026: Spain\u2019s Luis de la Fuente wins men\u2019s Coach of the Year award<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanguardngr.com\/\">Vanguard News<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Source: <\/p>\n<div class=\"nSourse\">Vanguard News<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spain national team manager Luis de la Fuente has won the Men\u2019s Coach of the Year award at the 2026 Ballon d\u2019Or ceremony after leading Spain to victory at the&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1577,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1576","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=1576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1576\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}