{"id":33546,"date":"2024-06-03T13:12:02","date_gmt":"2024-06-03T13:12:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=33546"},"modified":"2024-06-03T13:12:02","modified_gmt":"2024-06-03T13:12:02","slug":"jude-bellingham-and-vinicius-named-uefa-champions-league-player-of-the-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2024\/06\/03\/jude-bellingham-and-vinicius-named-uefa-champions-league-player-of-the-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Jude Bellingham and Vinicius named UEFA Champions League Player of the Season"},"content":{"rendered":"

UEFA’s Technical Observer panel has named Real Madrid forward Vin\u00edcius J\u00fanior as the 2023\/24 UEFA Champions League Player of the Season.<\/p>\n

The Real Madrid forward takes the award of player of the season after spearheading his team to glory.<\/p>\n

Vin\u00edcius J\u00fanior turned in a series of sensational displays for Madrid across their victorious campaign, chipping in with six goals in all, including the clincher in\u00a0the final against Dortmund.<\/p>\n

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“I’m very happy to be able to win another Champions League with this club, which has given me so much,” said the Brazilian international after the Wembley showpiece. “It’s an incredible thing. Not everyone can experience it and win it so many times.”<\/p>\n

Vin\u00edcius J\u00fanior’s 2023\/24 Champions League stats<\/p>\n

Appearances: 10
\nMinutes played: 901
\nGoals: 6
\nAssists: 5
\nDistance covered: 99.3km
\nTop speed: 34.7km\/h<\/p>\n

Also Real Madrid midfielder Jude Bellingham as the 2023\/24 UEFA Champions League Young Player of the Season.<\/p>\n

Bellingham has enjoyed a stunning debut season in the Spanish capital, culminating in\u00a0Saturday night’s UEFA Champions League triumph against his former club Borussia Dortmund.<\/p>\n

“I’ve always dreamed of playing in these games,” said the 20-year-old England midfielder. “I can’t put it into words. It’s the best night of my life. It’s got to be up there in terms of the perfect season. I can’t have dreamed it much better than this. I’m so grateful to my team-mates, my family, the team behind the scenes: the physios, everyone there. This is a massive group effort.”<\/p>\n

Bellingham’s 2023\/24 Champions League stats<\/p>\n

Appearances: 11
\nMinutes played:\u00a0993
\nGoals: 4
\nAssists: 5
\nPassing accuracy: 90.5%
\nDistance covered: 117.5km<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

UEFA’s Technical Observer panel has named Real Madrid forward Vin\u00edcius J\u00fanior as the 2023\/24 UEFA Champions League Player of the Season. The Real Madrid forward takes the award of player of the season after spearheading his team to glory. Vin\u00edcius J\u00fanior turned in a series of sensational displays for Madrid across their victorious campaign, chipping […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":33550,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[175],"tags":[296],"class_list":["post-33546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-ucl"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33546"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33546\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33551,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33546\/revisions\/33551"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}