{"id":478133,"date":"2024-02-12T13:18:33","date_gmt":"2024-02-12T17:18:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=478133"},"modified":"2024-02-12T13:18:33","modified_gmt":"2024-02-12T17:18:33","slug":"mascherano-invites-messi-to-play-at-olympics-in-paris","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/mascherano-invites-messi-to-play-at-olympics-in-paris\/","title":{"rendered":"Mascherano invites Messi to play at Olympics in Paris"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Leo Messi is invited to play with Argentina&#8217;s Olympic squad for the 2024 Olympics in Paris.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Javier Mascherano: &#8220;Messi at the Olympics? He has open doors from me, it&#8217;s on him to decide. He congratulated us. We know that Leo is a big fan of the National Team. There will be time to talk.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/fFGuVOcd5j\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/fFGuVOcd5j<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 All About Argentina \ud83d\udece\ud83c\udde6\ud83c\uddf7 (@AlbicelesteTalk) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AlbicelesteTalk\/status\/1756830806939459588?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">February 12, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Argentina defeated reigning champions Brazil 1-0 to advance to the Olympic Games in Paris.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It\u2019s not secreted my relationship with Lionel Messi, my friendship,&#8221; Mascherano shared.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A footballer like him has the doors open to join us [at the Olympics], then it will obviously depend on Leo and his schedule.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Leo, who led Argentina to their 3<sup>rd<\/sup> World Cup trophy in Qatar in 2022, celebrated his nation\u2019s qualifying for the Olympics by posting on social media a photograph of Mascherano&#8217;s squad after the weekend\u2019s triumph with the word: &#8220;VAMOS!!!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Argentina U23 player Thiago Almada claimed playing with Messi at the upcoming Olympics would be a dream.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I hope Leo wants to join us in Paris,&#8221; Atlanta United&#8217;s midfielder claimed.<\/p>\n<p>Leo won the gold medal with Argentina at the Olympics in Beijing in 2008.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leo Messi is invited to play with Argentina&#8217;s Olympic squad for the 2024 Olympics in Paris. Javier Mascherano: &#8220;Messi at the Olympics? He [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":478134,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[18356,17143,16898],"news_category":[14236,14235],"gn_keywords":[18357,17906,17905],"acf":{"announce":"The door is open for Leo Messi to compete with Argentina at the Olympics.","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\/478133"}],"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=478133"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/478133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":478136,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/478133\/revisions\/478136"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/478134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=478133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=478133"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=478133"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=478133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}