{"id":14424,"date":"2023-07-22T11:45:34","date_gmt":"2023-07-22T11:45:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=14424"},"modified":"2023-07-22T12:00:57","modified_gmt":"2023-07-22T12:00:57","slug":"goat-messi-scores-late-winner-on-inter-miami-debut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=14424","title":{"rendered":"GOAT! Messi Scores Late Winner On Inter Miami Debut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">Seven-time Ballon d\u2019Or winner, Lionel Messi has launched a great start to his American journey, scoring a game-winning free-kick on his debut for Inter Miami on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The Argentine came on in the second half and scored a 90th-minute free-kick in his debut game, securing a 2-1 win against Cruz Azul.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The American professional soccer club hadn\u2019t won in months until this victory. Special thanks to Messi expressed happiness with the outcome of the match and said he was lucky the ball went in. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The former Barcelona and PSG superstar dedicated his goal to an injured Inter Miami teammate.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">His words, \u201cLet me dedicate this victory to Ian Fray. He was suffering in the locker room from the injury he sustained. He comes from two serious injuries and today he has the bad luck to go through an injury again.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The match saw the presence of superstars like Lebron James and Serena Williams among others.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seven-time Ballon d\u2019Or winner, Lionel Messi has launched a great start to his American journey, scoring a game-winning free-kick on his debut for Inter Miami on Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14426,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7304,7279,7305],"class_list":["post-14424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-cruz-azul","tag-inter-miami","tag-messi-mls-debut"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14424"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14424"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14424\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14430,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14424\/revisions\/14430"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}