{"id":109,"date":"2018-07-26T12:19:48","date_gmt":"2018-07-26T04:19:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/?p=109"},"modified":"2018-08-24T15:42:57","modified_gmt":"2018-08-24T07:42:57","slug":"frances-benjamin-pavard-wins-fifa-world-cup-goal-of-the-tournament-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/?p=109","title":{"rendered":"France\u2019s Benjamin Pavard wins FIFA World Cup goal of the tournament award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-113\" src=\"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/1364285540453.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"432\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/1364285540453.jpg 768w, https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/1364285540453-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/1364285540453-178x100.jpg 178w, https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/1364285540453-350x197.jpg 350w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Benjamin Pavard\u2019s stunning long-range strike for France against Argentina has been named as the best goal of the 2018 World Cup by FIFA.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Proud, honoured, and always a little bit hard to believe,&#8221; Pavard said in a Twitter post in French.<\/p>\n<p>The Stuttgart right-back struck from outside the area as France levelled the scores at 2-2 in a compelling last-16 clash during this summer\u2019s showpiece event in Russia.<\/p>\n<p>Les Bleus eventually won the game 4-3 and went on to lift the trophy with further victories over Uruguay, Belgium and Croatia.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 640px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('video');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-109-1\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Benjamin-PAVARD-HYUNDAI-GOAL-OF-THE-TOURNAMENT-__WINNER__.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Benjamin-PAVARD-HYUNDAI-GOAL-OF-THE-TOURNAMENT-__WINNER__.mp4\">https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Benjamin-PAVARD-HYUNDAI-GOAL-OF-THE-TOURNAMENT-__WINNER__.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Benjamin Pavard\u2019s stunning long-range strike for France against Argentina has been named as the best&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":113,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[48,46,47],"class_list":["post-109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-fifa","tag-pavard","tag-world-cup"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/1364285540453.jpg",768,432,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/1364285540453-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/1364285540453-300x169.jpg",300,169,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/1364285540453-768x432.jpg",640,360,true],"large":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/1364285540453.jpg",640,360,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/1364285540453.jpg",768,432,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/1364285540453.jpg",768,432,false],"newsium-slider-full":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/1364285540453.jpg",768,432,false],"newsium-featured":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/1364285540453.jpg",768,432,false],"newsium-medium":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/1364285540453.jpg",720,405,false]},"author_info":{"info":["Editor"]},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/?cat=16\" rel=\"category\">Sports<\/a>","tag_info":"Sports","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=109"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":115,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109\/revisions\/115"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}