{"id":438519,"date":"2023-06-25T08:32:22","date_gmt":"2023-06-25T12:32:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=438519"},"modified":"2023-06-25T08:32:22","modified_gmt":"2023-06-25T12:32:22","slug":"messi-scores-hattrick-in-maxi-rodriguez-testimonial-match","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/messi-scores-hattrick-in-maxi-rodriguez-testimonial-match\/","title":{"rendered":"Messi scores hattrick in Maxi Rodriguez testimonial match"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lionel Messi was the central figure in the testimonial match of his former team-mate in the national team Maxi Rodriguez.<\/p>\n<p>Messi showed he is in top form on the eve of his 36th birthday, scoring a hat-trick as Argentina beat Newell Old Boys 4-2 in Rosario.<\/p>\n<p>Messi was greeted by 42,000 spectators in his hometown, who wished him a &#8220;happy birthday&#8221;.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\ud83c\udfa5 | Messi\u2019s second goal at Maxi\u2019s farewell match. Chip chip \ud83d\udc10\ud83e\udd29\u26bd\ufe0f <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/EZa9uxa7S3\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/EZa9uxa7S3<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 PSG Chief (@psg_chief) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/psg_chief\/status\/1672748425664770050?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">June 24, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The legend Gabriel Batistita also took part in the match.<\/p>\n<p>Messi is taking some time off before joining his new team in MLS &#8211; Inter Miami, as his presentations is likely to be on July 16th alongside his old teammate in Barcelona &#8211; Sergio Busquets who also joins the Miami team as a free agent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lionel Messi was the central figure in the testimonial match of his former team-mate in the national team Maxi Rodriguez. Messi showed he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":438520,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17909],"news_category":[14236,14235],"gn_keywords":[17910],"acf":{"announce":"The game was played in Messi's home town of Rosario","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\/438519"}],"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=438519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/438519\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/438520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=438519"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=438519"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=438519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}