{"id":122682,"date":"2019-06-01T09:04:31","date_gmt":"2019-06-01T08:04:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=122682"},"modified":"2019-06-01T09:18:22","modified_gmt":"2019-06-01T08:18:22","slug":"messi-reveals-who-assist-him-recover-loss-of-football-matches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=122682","title":{"rendered":"Messi reveals who assist him recover loss of football matches"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Lionel Messi, Barcelona star, has said that his children have helped him learn to overcome the pain of defeat on the football pitch.<\/p>\n

Messi was desperate to add a fifth Champions League title to his collection this season but was distraught at his side\u2019s capitulation to Liverpool, before suffering further heartbreak in the Copa del Rey final against Valencia.<\/p>\n

The Argentine superstar has three sons with wife, Antonella: Thiago, Mateo and Ciro. And he says that fatherhood has given him a more mature outlook to life.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe defeats hurt but I deal with them in another way.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen Thiago was born [in 2012] I understood that the priorities are different and not just the result of a game.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt hurts a lot to lose but I get to my house and I see my children and my wife and it passes.<\/p>\n

\u201cBefore that, I came home and I locked myself up and I did not want to watch TV and I did not eat.<\/p>\n

\u201cNow I have a duty to be at the table with my children. I still suffer but I handle it in another way,\u201d he told FOX Sports Argentina.\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Lionel Messi, Barcelona star, has said that his children have helped him learn to overcome the pain of defeat on the football pitch. Messi was desperate to add a fifth Champions League title to his collection this season but was distraught at his side\u2019s capitulation to Liverpool, before suffering further heartbreak in the Copa del […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":114954,"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":[2658,108,2398,11196],"class_list":["post-122682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-a","tag-barca","tag-messi","tag-valverde"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122682","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=122682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122682\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/114954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=122682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=122682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=122682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}