{"id":2238,"date":"2023-07-22T11:27:33","date_gmt":"2023-07-22T11:27:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/?p=2238"},"modified":"2023-07-22T11:27:33","modified_gmt":"2023-07-22T11:27:33","slug":"messi-scores-late-winner-on-miami-debut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/2023\/07\/22\/messi-scores-late-winner-on-miami-debut\/","title":{"rendered":"Messi scores late winner on Miami debut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Lionel Messi has launched a great start to his American journey, scoring a game-winning free-kick on his debut for Inter Miami on Saturday morning, Nigerian time.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The seven-time Ballon d\u2019Or winner came on in the second half and scored a 90th-minute free-kick in his debut game for Inter Miami, securing a 2-1 win against Cruz Azul.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Inter Miami hadn\u2019t won in months until this victory. Messi expressed happiness with the outcome of the match and said he was lucky the ball went in. He dedicated his goal to an injured teammate.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">He said, \u201cLet me dedicate this victory to Ian Fray (Inter Miami teammate) who was suffering in the locker room from the injury he sustained. He comes from two serious injuries and today he has the bad luck to go through an injury again.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The match saw the presence of superstars like Lebron James and Serena Williams among others.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lionel Messi has launched a great start to his American journey, scoring a game-winning free-kick on his debut for Inter<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2239,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2238"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2240,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2238\/revisions\/2240"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}