{"id":105993,"date":"0001-04-03T20:31:42","date_gmt":"2001-04-03T19:31:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=105993"},"modified":"2019-04-11T13:37:09","modified_gmt":"2019-04-11T12:37:09","slug":"yaya-toure-makes-claims-about-barcelonas-messi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=105993","title":{"rendered":"Yaya Toure makes claims about Barcelona\u2019s Messi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/arewa.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Yaya-Toure-makes-claims-about-Barcelona\u2019s-Messi.jpg\"><\/p>\n<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">Manchester City legend, Yaya Toure has claimed that Barcelona captain, Lionel Messi has taken football to another level.<\/p>\n<p>He stated this ahead of Barcelona\u2019s Champions League quarter-final first leg clash with Manchester United at Old Trafford on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n<p>Toure, a former teammate with Messi during his time at Barcelona, believes the Argentina international is different, special and a strange character in football.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMessi is such a strange character. He is different and special,\u201d the Ivory Coast legend told BBC Sport.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou never hear him talking a lot and he is always concentrating and focusing on his football. He is a perfect teammate and enjoyable to play with.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou give him a pass with two or three players around him and it is so difficult to get the ball from him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor me, the guy has taken football to another level. He is always ahead of his opponents and his teammates.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo train with him, he adapts to you and you have to adapt to him. When you play with him, he will win trophies. He always wants to play in all the games.\u201d\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Manchester City legend, Yaya Toure has claimed that Barcelona captain, Lionel Messi has taken football to another level. He stated this ahead of Barcelona\u2019s Champions League quarter-final first leg clash with Manchester United at Old Trafford on Wednesday night. Toure, a former teammate with Messi during his time at Barcelona, believes the Argentina international is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":105994,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[34,10667],"class_list":["post-105993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-barcelona","tag-lionel-messi"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=105993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105993\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/105994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=105993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=105993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=105993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}