{"id":1592,"date":"2026-10-26T23:02:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-26T23:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/26\/putellas-wins-third-womens-ballon-dor\/"},"modified":"2026-10-26T23:02:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-26T23:02:09","slug":"putellas-wins-third-womens-ballon-dor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/26\/putellas-wins-third-womens-ballon-dor\/","title":{"rendered":"Putellas wins third Women\u2019s Ballon d\u2019Or"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"41.867579908676\">\n<p>Spanish midfielder Alexia Putellas has won the 2026 Women\u2019s Ballon d\u2019Or, claiming the award for the third time at the ceremony in London on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The London City Lionesses star previously won the prestigious individual prize in 2021 and 2022, becoming a three-time winner of the award.<\/p>\n<p>Putellas ended Aitana Bonmat\u00ed\u2019s three-year run as winner of the award. Bonmat\u00ed won the Women\u2019s Ballon d\u2019Or in 2023, 2024 and 2025 but was not nominated for this year\u2019s prize.<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-also\">\n<header>Related News<\/header>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Putellas captained Barcelona during the 2025\/26 season before joining London City Lionesses in the summer. She helped the Spanish club win four trophies, including the Women\u2019s Champions League, Liga F, the Spanish Super Cup and the Copa de la Reina.<\/p>\n<p>The 32-year-old also helped Spain win the Women\u2019s Nations League, further strengthening her credentials for the award.<\/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#e7938f8282838e938895a7979289848f8980c984888a\"> <span class=\"__cf_email__\" data-cfemail=\"a5d1cdc0c0c1ccd1cad7e5d5d0cbc6cdcbc28bc6cac8\">[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>Spanish midfielder Alexia Putellas has won the 2026 Women\u2019s Ballon d\u2019Or, claiming the award for the third time at the ceremony in London on Monday. The London City Lionesses star&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-1592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1592","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=1592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1592\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}