third place finish<\/a> in the competition for the 2014 Ballon d’Or is nothing to be taken lightly considering the first and second place finishers of Cristiano\u00a0Ronaldo and Lionel Messi. \u00a0From the start of him finding out he was one of the three being considered for the trophy, he remained humble and expressed that he finds just being in the top three of the world is an honor enough. \u00a0Ribery also remarks that he\u00a0“would rather win it all again with Bayern Munich and win the world title. That is what really matters.\u00a0Of course, I would have liked to win the award, but what else could I have done than winning all trophies with Bayern?” \u00a0This team attitude is part of what makes Bayern Munich’s success so stable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Team Attitude Franck Ribery’s third place finish in the competition for the 2014 Ballon d’Or is nothing to be taken lightly considering the first and second place finishers of Cristiano\u00a0Ronaldo and Lionel Messi. \u00a0From the start of him finding out he was one of the three being considered for the trophy, he remained humble […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":709,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15,43,23,25,24],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/sportshistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/sportshistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/sportshistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/sportshistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/709"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/sportshistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=652"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/sportshistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":735,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/sportshistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652\/revisions\/735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/sportshistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/sportshistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/sportshistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}