{"id":458330,"date":"2023-09-06T11:46:03","date_gmt":"2023-09-06T07:46:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=458330"},"modified":"2023-09-06T11:47:30","modified_gmt":"2023-09-06T07:47:30","slug":"afa-president-believes-messi-will-play-at-the-2026-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/afa-president-believes-messi-will-play-at-the-2026-world-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"AFA president believes Messi will play at the 2026 World Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Argentine Football Federation President Claudio Tapia says he is optimistic about Lionel Messi&#8217;s possible participation in the 2026 World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Yes, I can imagine Messi playing in the 2026 World Cup. It is quite possible. Leo can play any position he wants. Everything depends on him, but there is no doubt that I dream of seeing him at another World Cup&#8221;, Tapia shared.<\/p>\n<p>Messi has participated in the world finals 5 times, and last year he fulfilled his biggest goal and led Argentina to the title. On the way to the trophy, Leo scored 7 goals and made 3 assists. He was also chosen as the best player of the tournament. In 2026 for the World Cup in USA and Canada Messi will be 39.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\ud83d\udea8 Tapia (President of AFA)\ud83d\udde3\ufe0f: \u201cMessi will easily be able to play in the 2026 World Cup.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/2tnndaIuhR\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/2tnndaIuhR<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 FCB Albiceleste (@FCBAlbiceleste) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FCBAlbiceleste\/status\/1699099138556661790?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">September 5, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Argentine Football Federation President Claudio Tapia says he is optimistic about Lionel Messi&#8217;s possible participation in the 2026 World Cup. &#8220;Yes, I can [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":458339,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17518,17909],"news_category":[14235],"gn_keywords":[17897,17910],"acf":{"announce":"Claudio Tapia thinks the forward would want to make his mark in the US and Canada","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\/458330"}],"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=458330"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/458330\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":458340,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/458330\/revisions\/458340"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/458339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=458330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=458330"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=458330"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=458330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}