{"id":196016,"date":"2020-02-23T08:12:15","date_gmt":"2020-02-23T07:12:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=196016"},"modified":"2020-02-23T08:13:02","modified_gmt":"2020-02-23T07:13:02","slug":"laliga-i-wont-wash-my-jersey-after-hugging-messi-braithwaite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=196016","title":{"rendered":"LaLiga: I won&#8217;t wash my jersey after hugging Messi &#8211; Braithwaite"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">Barcelona\u2019s new striker, Martin Braithwaite, has joked he won\u2019t wash his kit, after hugging Lionel Messi, during a 5-0 win against Eibar on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Braithwaite arrived from Leganes on Thursday for \u20ac18million.<\/p>\n<p>The Danish international was introduced for the final 20 minutes and laid on a cross for Messi\u2019s fourth goal of the game.<\/p>\n<p>Braithwaite was also involved in the fifth goal, with goalkeeper Marko Dmitrovic pushing out his effort for Arthur Melo to score from the rebound.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMessi congratulated me [for the pass]. He\u2019s a great guy. He tried to make me feel comfortable and looked to find me with his passes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI won\u2019t wash my kit after the hug he gave me [laughs]. Honestly, I am really happy to have been able to set him up for a goal,\u201d he told reporters.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barcelona\u2019s new striker, Martin Braithwaite, has joked he won\u2019t wash his kit, after hugging Lionel Messi, during a 5-0 win against Eibar on Saturday. Braithwaite arrived from Leganes on Thursday for \u20ac18million. The Danish international was introduced for the final 20 minutes and laid on a cross for Messi\u2019s fourth goal of the game. Braithwaite [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":196017,"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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[34,2398],"class_list":["post-196016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-barcelona","tag-messi"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196016","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=196016"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196016\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/196017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=196016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=196016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=196016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}