{"id":1587,"date":"2026-10-26T22:30:49","date_gmt":"2026-10-26T22:30:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/26\/2026-ballon-dor-spains-de-la-fuente-wins-mens-coach-of-the-year\/"},"modified":"2026-10-26T22:30:49","modified_gmt":"2026-10-26T22:30:49","slug":"2026-ballon-dor-spains-de-la-fuente-wins-mens-coach-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/26\/2026-ballon-dor-spains-de-la-fuente-wins-mens-coach-of-the-year\/","title":{"rendered":"2026 Ballon d\u2019Or: Spain\u2019s De la Fuente wins men\u2019s coach of the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"43.604770017036\">\n<p>Spain manager Luis de la Fuente has been named Men\u2019s Coach of the Year at the 2026 Ballon d\u2019Or ceremony, following his side\u2019s triumph at the 2026 FIFA World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement was made on Monday during the ongoing 2026 Ballon d\u2019Or ceremony at the London Palladium in England<\/p>\n<p>De la Fuente beat Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta, Paris Saint-Germain boss Luis Enrique, Bayern Munich coach Vincent Kompany and Aston Villa manager Unai Emery to claim the award.<\/p>\n<p>Former Liverpool manager Rafa Benitez presented the prize, but the announcement was briefly disrupted by a mix-up over the winner\u2019s name on the card.<\/p>\n<p>Benitez eventually declared De la Fuente the winner.<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-also\">\n<header>Related News<\/header>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The Spanish coach exchanged handshakes with Emery and Spain international Lamine Yamal before stepping onto the stage to receive the award.<\/p>\n<p>The recognition further adds to De la Fuente\u2019s achievements with Spain following the national team\u2019s World Cup success.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/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#ec98848989888598839eac9c99828f84828bc28f8381\"> <span class=\"__cf_email__\" data-cfemail=\"f98d919c9c9d908d968bb9898c979a91979ed79a9694\">[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>Spain manager Luis de la Fuente has been named Men\u2019s Coach of the Year at the 2026 Ballon d\u2019Or ceremony, following his side\u2019s triumph at the 2026 FIFA World Cup.&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-1587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1587","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=1587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1587\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}