{"id":1578,"date":"2026-10-26T21:46:07","date_gmt":"2026-10-26T21:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/26\/2026-ballon-dor-yamal-wins-young-talent-award-for-third-straight-year\/"},"modified":"2026-10-26T21:46:07","modified_gmt":"2026-10-26T21:46:07","slug":"2026-ballon-dor-yamal-wins-young-talent-award-for-third-straight-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/26\/2026-ballon-dor-yamal-wins-young-talent-award-for-third-straight-year\/","title":{"rendered":"2026 Ballon d\u2019Or: Yamal wins Young Talent award for third straight year"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"58.97617274758\">\n<p>Barcelona winger Lamine Yamal has won the 2026 Young Talent of the Year award at the Ballon d\u2019Or ceremony, securing the honour for the third consecutive year.\n<\/p>\n<p>Yamal topped the ranking ahead of Barcelona teammate Pau Cubars\u00ed, who finished second, while Paris Saint-Germain midfielder Warren Za\u00efre-Emery placed third.\n<\/p>\n<p>German youngster Lennart Karl came fourth, followed by Ivory Coast forward Yan Diomand\u00e9 in fifth.\n<\/p>\n<p>Morocco\u2019s Ayyoub Bouaddi finished sixth, while Kerim Alajbegovic of Bosnia and Herzegovina placed seventh.<\/p>\n<p>Junior Kroupi of France came eighth, Algeria\u2019s Ibrahim Maza finished ninth, and Switzerland\u2019s Johan Manzambi completed the top 10.<\/p>\n<p>2026 Young Talent of the Year top 10\n<\/p>\n<p>1 \u2013 Lamine Yamal (Spain)<\/p>\n<p>2 \u2013 Pau Cubars\u00ed (Spain) <\/p>\n<div class=\"read-also\">\n<header>Related News<\/header>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>3 \u2013 Warren Za\u00efre-Emery (France)\n<\/p>\n<p>4 \u2013 Lennart Karl (Germany)\n<\/p>\n<p>5 \u2013 Yan Diomand\u00e9 (Ivory Coast)\n<\/p>\n<p>6 \u2013 Ayyoub Bouaddi (Morocco)\n<\/p>\n<p>7 \u2013 Kerim Alajbegovic (Bosnia and Herzegovina)\n<\/p>\n<p>8 \u2013 Junior Kroupi (France)<\/p>\n<p>9 \u2013 Ibrahim Maza (Algeria)\n<\/p>\n<p>10 \u2013 Johan Manzambi (Switzerland)\n                    <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div readability=\"14.852589641434\">\n<p> All rights reserved. This material, and other digital content on this website, may not be reproduced, published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed in whole or in part without prior express written permission from PUNCH.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contact\">Contact: <a href=\"\/cdn-cgi\/l\/email-protection#67130f0202030e13081527171209040f09004904080a\"> <span class=\"__cf_email__\" data-cfemail=\"50243835353439243f221020253e33383e377e333f3d\">[email\u00a0protected]<\/span> <\/a> <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Source: <\/p>\n<div class=\"nSourse\">Punch Newspapers &#8211; Latest News<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barcelona winger Lamine Yamal has won the 2026 Young Talent of the Year award at the Ballon d\u2019Or ceremony, securing the honour for the third consecutive year. Yamal topped the&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1578","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=1578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1578\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}