{"id":295942,"date":"2020-12-23T07:45:51","date_gmt":"2020-12-23T06:45:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=295942"},"modified":"2020-12-23T07:47:23","modified_gmt":"2020-12-23T06:47:23","slug":"valladolid-vs-barcelona-messi-reacts-after-breaking-peles-scoring-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=295942","title":{"rendered":"Valladolid vs Barcelona: Messi reacts after breaking Pele&#8217;s scoring record"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">Barcelona captain, Lionel Messi, has spoken about overtaking Brazil legend Pele, to become the player to score the most goals for a single club.<br \/>\nMessi netted the record-breaking 644th goal in the second half of their 3-0 win at Valladolid.<br \/>\nPele scored 643 competitive goals for Santos during his 18 years with the Brazilian club, before moving to the New York Cosmos in 1975.<br \/>\nHis one-club goal record was almost broken by Gerd Muller. The former Germany international netted 565 times for Bayern Munich between 1964 and 1979.<br \/>\n\u201cWhen I started to play football, I never thought I would break any record. Especially not the record held by Pele that I now hold,\u201d Messi wrote on Instagram after Tuesday\u2019s game.<br \/>\n\u201cI can only give thanks to everyone that has helped me throughout the years, my teammates, my family, my friends and everyone that supports me every day.\u201d\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barcelona captain, Lionel Messi, has spoken about overtaking Brazil legend Pele, to become the player to score the most goals for a single club. Messi netted the record-breaking 644th goal in the second half of their 3-0 win at Valladolid. Pele scored 643 competitive goals for Santos during his 18 years with the Brazilian club, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":295943,"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":[2658,34,10667,16114],"class_list":["post-295942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-a","tag-barcelona","tag-lionel-messi","tag-pele"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295942","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=295942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295942\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/295943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=295942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=295942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=295942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}