{"id":458486,"date":"2023-09-08T09:13:22","date_gmt":"2023-09-08T05:13:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=458486"},"modified":"2023-09-08T09:15:00","modified_gmt":"2023-09-08T05:15:00","slug":"stunning-messi-free-kick-leads-argentina-to-beat-ecuador","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/stunning-messi-free-kick-leads-argentina-to-beat-ecuador\/","title":{"rendered":"Stunning Messi free kick leads Argentina to beat Ecuador"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Argentina began their 2026 World Cup qualifiers with 1:0 win over Ecuador.<\/p>\n<p>Once again the Inter Miami star Lionel Messi was the one who stepped into the spotlight with a great goal.<\/p>\n<p>The only goal was scored after a magical shot by Messi from a direct free kick in the 78th minute, getting the ball over the wall and into the net, leaving the opposition goalkeeper no chance to react.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Leo Messi gives reigning world champs Argentina the 1-0 win vs. Ecuador in 2026 World Cup qualifying \ud83c\udde6\ud83c\uddf7 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Gy0P88dhtL\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/Gy0P88dhtL<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 B\/R Football (@brfootball) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/brfootball\/status\/1699969938079748123?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">September 8, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\nThe goal scorer left the game in the 89th minute to the massive applause of the audience and handed the captain armband to Angel Di Maria.<\/p>\n<p>A total of 10 teams are in the South American group, of which the first 6 qualify directly and the seventh plays playoff. The next clash for Messi and his teammates is against Bolivia.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_hi4BTp_a7U?si=F3RY0Vlz2gyOr1qE\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Argentina began their 2026 World Cup qualifiers with 1:0 win over Ecuador. Once again the Inter Miami star Lionel Messi was the one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":458493,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17518,17143,17909],"news_category":[14235,14084],"gn_keywords":[17897,17906,17910],"acf":{"announce":"The captain proved himself once again at irreplaceable for his national team","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\/458486"}],"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=458486"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/458486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":458499,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/458486\/revisions\/458499"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/458493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=458486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=458486"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=458486"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=458486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}