{"id":428386,"date":"2023-03-05T03:06:07","date_gmt":"2023-03-05T08:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=428386"},"modified":"2023-03-05T00:19:42","modified_gmt":"2023-03-05T05:19:42","slug":"messis-boyhood-club-display-banner-in-support-after-threats","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/messis-boyhood-club-display-banner-in-support-after-threats\/","title":{"rendered":"Messi&#8217;s boyhood club display banner in support after threats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lionel Messi&#8217;s boyhood club Newell&#8217;s Old Boys put up a banner of support for their country&#8217;s soccer superstar in their stadium on Saturday, following the attack against his wife Antonela Roccuzzo&#8217;s family business.<\/p>\n<p>A threatening hand-written message was left to the Paris St Germain forward early on Thursday morning, after two people on motorcycles shot the business.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Messi, we are waiting for you. (Pablo) Javkin (Rosario&#8217;s mayor) is also a narco, he will not take care of you,&#8221; read the handwritten text on the door.<\/p>\n<p>The message of support from Newell&#8217;s was posted on social media hours before Saturday&#8217;s home game against Barracas Central in the Argentine league.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">After threats and a shooting in Rosario targeting a shop owned by Antonella Roccuzzo\u2019s family (Messi\u2019s wife), Newell\u2019s Old Boys hangs a banner in support of Messi.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLeo, you\u2019re the heart of a country that loves you. Newell\u2019s is with you.\u201d \ud83d\udda4\u2764\ufe0f <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/obpjdIusDk\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/obpjdIusDk<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Nico Cantor (@Nicocantor1) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Nicocantor1\/status\/1632106114845122562?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">March 4, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n&#8220;Leo, you are the heart of a country that loves you. Newell&#8217;s is with you,&#8221; read the red and black banner, which was placed behind one of the goals at the Coloso Marcelo Bielsa stadium ahead of the match.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lionel Messi&#8217;s boyhood club Newell&#8217;s Old Boys put up a banner of support for their country&#8217;s soccer superstar in their stadium on Saturday, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":428387,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17909],"news_category":[141,14235],"gn_keywords":[17910],"acf":{"announce":"\"Leo, you are the heart of a country that loves you\", the banner says","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/428386"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/137"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=428386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/428386\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/428387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=428386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=428386"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=428386"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=428386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}