{"id":80910,"date":"2025-12-29T09:10:40","date_gmt":"2025-12-29T09:10:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=80910"},"modified":"2025-12-29T09:10:40","modified_gmt":"2025-12-29T09:10:40","slug":"ronaldo-wins-best-middle-east-player-at-2025-globe-soccer-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/12\/29\/ronaldo-wins-best-middle-east-player-at-2025-globe-soccer-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"Ronaldo Wins Best Middle East Player at 2025 Globe Soccer Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Onyeanya Immaculata<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Portuguese star Cristiano Ronaldo has been named Best Middle East Player at the 16th Globe Soccer Awards, held in Dubai on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The 40-year-old Al-Nassr forward beat Karim Benzema, Riyad Mahrez and Salem Al-Dawsari in the fan-voted category recognising outstanding players in Middle Eastern leagues.<\/p>\n<p>The award was announced by football journalist Fabrizio Romano on X.<\/p>\n<p>It marks Ronaldo\u2019s second consecutive win, having claimed the honour in 2024, and underscores his continued influence in the Saudi Pro League since joining Al-Nassr in 2023.<\/p>\n<p>Ronaldo enjoyed an impressive 2025 campaign, scoring 40 goals since his birthday in February, a notable feat at the age of 40.<\/p>\n<p>The Globe Soccer Awards, held annually in Dubai since 2010, celebrate excellence across football.<\/p>\n<p>At this year\u2019s ceremony, Paris Saint-Germain were named Best Men\u2019s Club, while individual honours went to Luis Enrique (Best Coach), Vitinha (Best Midfielder), D\u00e9sir\u00e9 Dou\u00e9 (Emerging Player) and Luis Campos (Best Sporting Director).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Onyeanya Immaculata &nbsp; Portuguese star Cristiano Ronaldo has been named Best Middle East Player at the 16th Globe Soccer Awards, held in Dubai on Sunday. The 40-year-old Al-Nassr forward beat Karim Benzema, Riyad Mahrez and Salem Al-Dawsari in the fan-voted category recognising outstanding players in Middle Eastern leagues. The award was announced by football [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":80911,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[175],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80910","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\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80910"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80910\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80912,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80910\/revisions\/80912"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}