{"id":370255,"date":"2021-07-04T10:59:45","date_gmt":"2021-07-04T09:59:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=370255"},"modified":"2021-07-04T11:00:07","modified_gmt":"2021-07-04T10:00:07","slug":"copa-america-messi-reacts-as-argentina-qualify-for-semi-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=370255","title":{"rendered":"Copa America: Messi reacts as Argentina qualify for semi-final"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">Argentina captain, Lionel Messi, refused to focus on personal accolades as they beat Ecuador 3-0 on Saturday, to qualify for the Copa America semi-final.<\/p>\n<p>Messi scored a free-kick and laid on two assists, as they progressed into the last four.<\/p>\n<p>The 34-year-old\u2019s goal was his 76th goal for Argentina, taking him to within one of Pele\u2019s South American records.<\/p>\n<p>Copa America: Three countries qualify for quarter-finals<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve always said that individual prizes are secondary, we\u2019re here for something else,\u201d Messi said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have an objective and we\u2019re focused on that.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was a hard match, we know how difficult an opponent they can be. The important thing is we\u2019ve taken another step forward.\u201d<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong><em>(DailyPost)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Argentina captain, Lionel Messi, refused to focus on personal accolades as they beat Ecuador 3-0 on Saturday, to qualify for the Copa America semi-final. Messi scored a free-kick and laid on two assists, as they progressed into the last four. The 34-year-old\u2019s goal was his 76th goal for Argentina, taking him to within one of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":370256,"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":[1073,12473,2398],"class_list":["post-370255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-argentina","tag-copa-america","tag-messi"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370255","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=370255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370255\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/370256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=370255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=370255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=370255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}