{"id":19351,"date":"2026-07-20T21:29:23","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T21:29:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/?p=19351"},"modified":"2026-07-20T21:29:23","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T21:29:23","slug":"kylian-mbappe-rodri-goals-2026-world-cup-team-of-the-tournament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/?p=19351","title":{"rendered":"Kylian Mbappe, Rodri &#038; GOAL&#8217;s 2026 World Cup Team of the Tournament"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"article-body\">\n<div>\n<p><span>A World Cup has the power to be transformative for a player&#8217;s career, and Pedro Porro is certainly someone who appears to have benefitted in North America. The Tottenham defender wasn&#8217;t even Spain&#8217;s starting right-back going into the tournament, but he didn&#8217;t look back after replacing Atletico Madrid&#8217;s Marcos Llorente in La Roja&#8217;s line-up for the last-32 clash with Austria. Now, he is a world champion.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Porro demonstrated shone in that tie, keeping Austria&#8217;s left flank quiet and demonstrating his attacking instincts by popping up in the opposition box to head his side into a two-goal lead. Keeping his place against Portugal in the round of 16, Porro was among Spain&#8217;s standout performers, making more defensive contributions than anyone else on the pitch (nine), and he was impressive again &#8211; especially in attack &#8211; against Belgium in the last eight.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>If that wasn&#8217;t enough already, he delivered once more in the semi-finals, firing home the second goal like a seasoned striker to put the game beyond France, and his cross led to the goal in the final, too.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A World Cup has the power to be transformative for a player&#8217;s career, and Pedro&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19352,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19351\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/19352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}