{"id":517367,"date":"2026-09-03T06:47:43","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T10:47:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=517367"},"modified":"2026-09-03T06:47:43","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T10:47:43","slug":"argentina-league-to-pause-matches-to-honor-leo-messi","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/argentina-league-to-pause-matches-to-honor-leo-messi\/","title":{"rendered":"Argentina league to pause matches to honor Leo Messi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Argentine league will pay tribute to Lionel Messi after his retirement from the national team by pausing all of their games in the 10<sup>th<\/sup> minute of the upcoming weekend for a minute of applause.<\/p>\n<p>The superstar, who wore the number 10 shirt for his country, revealed at the beginning of the week that he is retiring from international football.<\/p>\n<p>The 8-time Ballon d&#8217;Or winner&#8217;s final match for Argentina, which he captained to World Cup triumph in Qatar in 2022, was the 2026 World Cup final loss to Spain two months ago.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo honor the legendary career of Messi with the national team, at the 10<sup>th<\/sup> minute of play in all games, the officials will stop the match, and a minute of applause will be held,\u201d the Argentinian football governing body wrote.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe can\u2019t wait to see you in the stadiums to join us in this tribute to Messi.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Leo, his country\u2019s appearances record holder with 207 games, first retired from international football 10 years ago before reversing his decision.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83d\udea8\ud83c\udde6\ud83c\uddf7 At the 10th minute of Boca Juniors vs V\u00e9lez, the referee stopped the game.<\/p>\n<p>Players and fans stood together for a minute of applause in honour of Lionel Messi following his Argentina retirement. \ud83d\udc4f\ud83e\udd79<\/p>\n<p>The entire country paying tribute to their No.10. \ud83d\udc10\u2764\ufe0f\u2026<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Footybuzz (@footybuzzHQ) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/footybuzzHQ\/status\/2095408360011252133?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\">September 3, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Argentine league will pay tribute to Lionel Messi after his retirement from the national team by pausing all of their games in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":517368,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17143,16898],"news_category":[14236,14235,14084],"gn_keywords":[17906,17905],"acf":{"news_source":"","link_picture":"","announce":"The Argentinian league will pause the games this weekend.","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\/517367"}],"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=517367"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/517367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":517369,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/517367\/revisions\/517369"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/517368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=517367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=517367"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=517367"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=517367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}