{"id":257404,"date":"2020-09-12T18:19:36","date_gmt":"2020-09-12T17:19:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=257404"},"modified":"2020-09-13T09:22:51","modified_gmt":"2020-09-13T08:22:51","slug":"barcelona-reveal-final-decision-on-messi-continuing-as-captain-after-transfer-saga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=257404","title":{"rendered":"Barcelona reveal final decision on Messi continuing as captain after transfer saga"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">Barcelona on Saturday, confirmed that Lionel Messi will remain their captain, ahead of the 2020\/2021 season.<br \/>\nMessi demanded for a transfer away from the Camp Nou three weeks ago, but then performed a dramatic U-turn, when the club refused to allow him leave for free.<br \/>\nDespite the chaotic period, the 33-year-old will keep the armband under new manager Ronald Koeman this season, with Sergio Busquets, Gerard Pique and Sergi Roberto his deputies.<br \/>\nBarcelona posted a picture of all three players on social media and wrote: \u201cFor the third consecutive season, the four wearers of the armband will be Leo Messi, Sergio Busquets, Gerard Piqu\u00e9 and Sergi Roberto, in that order.<br \/>\n\u201cSince the departure of Andr\u00e9s Iniesta in 2018, the Argentine star has been in charge of leading the Bar\u00e7a team.<br \/>\n\u201cThe number 10 faces his 17th season in the first team and the third as first captain.\u201d\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barcelona on Saturday, confirmed that Lionel Messi will remain their captain, ahead of the 2020\/2021 season. Messi demanded for a transfer away from the Camp Nou three weeks ago, but then performed a dramatic U-turn, when the club refused to allow him leave for free. Despite the chaotic period, the 33-year-old will keep the armband [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":257405,"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-257404","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\/257404","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=257404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257404\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/257405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=257404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=257404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=257404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}