{"id":438536,"date":"2023-06-25T13:58:53","date_gmt":"2023-06-25T17:58:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=438536"},"modified":"2023-06-25T13:59:46","modified_gmt":"2023-06-25T17:59:46","slug":"fan-travelled-1200-miles-to-see-messi-but-left-heartbroken","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/fan-travelled-1200-miles-to-see-messi-but-left-heartbroken\/","title":{"rendered":"Fan travelled 1200 miles to see Messi, but left heartbroken"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A fan traveled 1,200 miles only to be left heartbroken, finding out that superstar Lionel Messi was not on the field as Inter Miami lost 4-1 away to Philadelphia Union.<\/p>\n<p>The hosts posted a curious video on their social media accounts of the fan in question, wearing a sweatshirt in pink, which is the club color of the Miami team. It shows the disappointed-looking supporter holding a sign that reads: &#8220;I travelled 1,200 miles to see football G.O.A.T&#8221; as he was using emojis of a football ball and a goat referring to Messi as the greatest footballer of all time.<\/p>\n<p>When he was shown on the big screen, the fan angrily threw the piece of cardboard away.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Big yikes. Safe flight back! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/t4oRMW4fBr\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/t4oRMW4fBr<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Philadelphia Union (@PhilaUnion) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PhilaUnion\/status\/1672780737953628163?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">June 25, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Staged or not, the clip quickly racked up over 1 million views on Twitter, with plenty of users making fun of this fan&#8217;s mishap. Actually, during the Philadelphia &#8211; Miami game, Lionel Messi was in Argentina <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/messi-scores-hattrick-in-maxi-rodriguez-testimonial-match\/\">playing in his friend Maxi Rodriguez testimonial match<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A fan traveled 1,200 miles only to be left heartbroken, finding out that superstar Lionel Messi was not on the field as Inter [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":438537,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17501,17909],"news_category":[17676,14235,14084],"gn_keywords":[18156,17910],"acf":{"announce":"The Argentine superstar was actually in his hometown playing a testimonial match","video":["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\/438536"}],"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=438536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/438536\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/438537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=438536"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=438536"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=438536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}