{"id":471343,"date":"2023-11-29T11:52:11","date_gmt":"2023-11-29T15:52:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=471343"},"modified":"2023-11-29T11:52:11","modified_gmt":"2023-11-29T15:52:11","slug":"scaloni-messi-must-forget-about-retirement","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/scaloni-messi-must-forget-about-retirement\/","title":{"rendered":"Scaloni: &#8216;Messi must forget about retirement&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Argentina manager Lionel Scaloni has advised Leo Messi to continue to be on the pitch for &#8220;as long as he can.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Argentinian superstar (36), who finished his 1<sup>st<\/sup> campaign in Major League Soccer with Inter Miami, has not shared when he thinks about to stop playing football.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We advise him [Leo] to play for as long as he can,&#8221; the Argentina national men&#8217;s football team boss admitted in an interview live on streaming service.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Messi has proved that he doesn&#8217;t have an end. He still plays at the highest level and is the best footballer in the world. It&#8217;s fascinating.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The manager also added that for Leo, playing football is a refuge.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Messi is enjoying playing football,&#8221; Scaloni told. &#8220;Off the pitch, I think it&#8217;s not easy to be Messi because he leaves his home and can&#8217;t be left in peace. However, everything is different when he is on the pitch, and he enjoys it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Lionel Scaloni on Messi: \u201cLeo Messi played with his heart at the World Cup, he was unstoppable. Seeing him up close is something impossible to describe, if I told you the things he does in training you wouldn&#8217;t believe me. He&#8217;s crazy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI told Leo that as long as he\u2019s happy on\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ahkESQCWuH\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/ahkESQCWuH<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Leo Messi \ud83d\udd1f Fan Club (@WeAreMessi) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WeAreMessi\/status\/1729739900428460440?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">November 29, 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>Argentina manager Lionel Scaloni has advised Leo Messi to continue to be on the pitch for &#8220;as long as he can.&#8221; The Argentinian [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":471344,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17143,16898,17414],"news_category":[14236,14235],"gn_keywords":[17906,17905,21789],"acf":{"announce":"The Argentinian head coach wants Leo to play as long as he can.","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\/471343"}],"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\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=471343"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/471343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":471347,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/471343\/revisions\/471347"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/471344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=471343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=471343"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=471343"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=471343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}