{"id":8709,"date":"2026-05-15T10:51:30","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T10:51:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/?p=8709"},"modified":"2026-05-15T10:51:30","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T10:51:30","slug":"chelsea-forward-backs-harry-kane-for-ballon-dor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/?p=8709","title":{"rendered":"Chelsea forward backs Harry Kane for Ballon d\u2019Or"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_65\">\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<p><strong>Chelsea forward Joao Pedro has backed Harry Kane to win the Ballon d\u2019Or and has called the Bayern Munich star an \u2018extraordinary player\u2019.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Kane is among the frontrunners to win the 2026 Ballon d\u2019Or after a brilliant season at Bayern Munich.<\/p>\n<p>The 32-year-old has scored 55 goals in just 49 games across all competitions, as part of a Bayern team that has won the Bundesliga with a record-breaking goal total.<\/p>\n<p>No Englishman has won the Ballon d\u2019Or since Michael Owen in 2001, though Kane has received backing from an unusual source.<\/p>\n<p>Despite Kane\u2019s status at London rivals Tottenham, where he is the club\u2019s record scorer, Chelsea forward Pedro has opened up on his respect for the England captain.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to TNT Sports Brazil, Pedro praised Kane as a player that he admires and said he is capable of winning this year\u2019s award.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe was already having extraordinary numbers in the Premier League, but now seeing him at Bayern, we can really get a picture of the quality that Harry Kane possesses.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have a lot of admiration for him. I played against him when I was at Watford and he was at Tottenham, and he totally dominated the game. I\u2019m always rooting for him because he\u2019s a fantastic player.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCan he win the Ballon d\u2019Or? In my opinion, yes. Because he\u2019s an extraordinary player.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Read \u2013\u00a0Every Manchester City player to reach 100 Premier League goal involvements<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>See more \u2013\u00a0The Premier League managerial carousel: Predicting who goes where<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>Follow the Football Faithful on Social Media:<\/strong><\/em><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Facebook | Instagram | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FootyFaithful_\">Twitter<\/a> | YouTube | TikTok<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.tiktok.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chelsea forward Joao Pedro has backed Harry Kane to win the Ballon d\u2019Or and has&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8710,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chelsea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8709","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=8709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8709\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}