{"id":2801,"date":"2008-12-02T13:00:32","date_gmt":"2008-12-02T13:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/?p=2801"},"modified":"2008-12-02T13:00:32","modified_gmt":"2008-12-02T13:00:32","slug":"2008-12-2-abou-trika-overooked-for-ballon-dor-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/?p=2801","title":{"rendered":"Abou Trika overooked for Ballon d&#8217;Or?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-src=\"v5\">The latest international conspiracy against Egypt:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Scandalously, the France Football editorial team who selected the 30 players for whom their worldwide panel of journalists are allowed to vote overlooked the Al Ahly and Egypt playmaker Mohamed Aboutrika.<\/p>\n<p>Fifa won&#8217;t compensate for this offensive anomaly. Their shortlist doesn&#8217;t include Aboutrika either. Nor anyone else from Egypt&#8217;s recent vintage. Hardly surprising given that Fifa doesn&#8217;t even rank Egypt, winners of the last two African Cups of Nations, as the best team in Africa. Not enough Europe-based players, perhaps.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>[From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/sport\/blog\/2008\/dec\/01\/cristiano-ronaldo-ballon-dor-football\"><cite>Football: Paul Doyle on the nonsense of the Ballon d&#8217;Or<\/cite><\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>(Thanks, X.)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div data-src=\"v5\">The latest international conspiracy against Egypt:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Scandalously, the France Football editorial team who selected the 30 players for whom their worldwide panel of journalists are allowed to vote overlooked the Al Ahly and Egypt playmaker Mohamed Aboutrika.<br \/>\nFifa won&#8217;t compensate for this offensive anomaly. Their shortlist doesn&#8217;t include Aboutrika either. Nor anyone else from Egypt&#8217;s recent vintage. Hardly surprising given that Fifa doesn&#8217;t even rank Egypt, winners of the last two African Cups of Nations, as the best team in Africa. Not enough Europe-based players, perhaps.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>[From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/sport\/blog\/2008\/dec\/01\/cristiano-ronaldo-ballon-dor-football\"><cite>Football: Paul Doyle on the nonsense of the Ballon d&#8217;Or<\/cite><\/a>]<br \/>\n(Thanks, X.)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[522,6,99],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2801"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2801\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}