{"id":372717,"date":"2021-07-11T08:21:36","date_gmt":"2021-07-11T07:21:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=372717"},"modified":"2021-07-11T08:22:02","modified_gmt":"2021-07-11T07:22:02","slug":"copa-america-messi-played-against-colombia-brazil-with-hamstring-injury-argentina-coach-scaloni-reveals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=372717","title":{"rendered":"Copa America: Messi played against Colombia, Brazil with hamstring injury \u2013 Argentina coach, Scaloni reveals"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">Argentina coach, Lionel Scaloni has revealed that captain Lionel Messi played against Colombia and Brazil in Copa America with a hamstring injury.<\/p>\n<p>According to Scaloni, Messi sustained the injury during Argentina\u2019s Copa America 3-0 win against Ecuador in the quarter-final last week.<\/p>\n<p>Recall that Argentina defeated Colombia on penalties in the Copa America semi-final last Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Argentina also defeated Brazil 1-0 in the Copa America final on Saturday, thanks to Angel Di Maria\u2019s first-half goal.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMessi has been playing with a hamstring injury against Colombia and Brazil, after getting a knock against Ecuador,\u201d Scaloni said at his post-match press conference.<\/p>\n<p>He added, \u201cIt\u2019s a great title, especially for our people. The fans support the team unconditionally. I think they can identify with this team that never gives in.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, reacting to Argentina\u2019s Copa America victory against Brazil, Messi paid tribute to God after winning his first major title with his country.<\/p>\n<p>Messi also finished Copa America 2021 with the most goals (four) and most assists (five).<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong><em>(DailyPost)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Argentina coach, Lionel Scaloni has revealed that captain Lionel Messi played against Colombia and Brazil in Copa America with a hamstring injury. According to Scaloni, Messi sustained the injury during Argentina\u2019s Copa America 3-0 win against Ecuador in the quarter-final last week. Recall that Argentina defeated Colombia on penalties in the Copa America semi-final last [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":372718,"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":[14190,12473,2398],"class_list":["post-372717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-angel-dimaria","tag-copa-america","tag-messi"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372717","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=372717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372717\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/372718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=372717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=372717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=372717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}