{"id":22926,"date":"2023-11-01T13:34:04","date_gmt":"2023-11-01T17:34:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/messi.com\/?p=22926"},"modified":"2023-11-01T13:34:04","modified_gmt":"2023-11-01T17:34:04","slug":"leo-speaks-after-securing-ballon-dor-i-never-imagined-id-have-the-career-i-have","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/messi.com\/en\/leo-speaks-after-securing-ballon-dor-i-never-imagined-id-have-the-career-i-have\/","title":{"rendered":"LEO SPEAKS AFTER SECURING BALLON D&#8217;OR: \u201cI NEVER IMAGINED I\u2019D HAVE THE CAREER I HAVE\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pl-22926\"  class=\"panel-layout\" ><div id=\"pg-22926-0\"  class=\"panel-grid panel-no-style\" ><div id=\"pgc-22926-0-0\"  class=\"panel-grid-cell\" ><div id=\"panel-22926-0-0-0\" class=\"so-panel widget widget_sow-editor panel-first-child panel-last-child\" data-index=\"0\" ><div class=\"text-noti panel-widget-style panel-widget-style-for-22926-0-0-0\" ><div\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\tclass=\"so-widget-sow-editor so-widget-sow-editor-base\"\n\t\t\t\n\t\t>\n<div class=\"siteorigin-widget-tinymce textwidget\">\n\t<p><strong>Glory with Argentina:<\/strong> \u201cI thank my national-team team-mates. I'm representing all of my team-mates. This is a gift for the whole group, the coaching staff and for the Argentines.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Other Ballon d'Or finalists: <\/strong>\u201cI don't want to forget Haaland or Mbapp\u00e9. Haaland had an amazing year and won everything going. In the coming years, they\u2019ll both win this award. I see a lot of young players coming through, and I\u2019ll have to watch on from the other side and will be able to enjoy football for a long time thanks to such players. I\u2019ve been fortunate to be in this room for many years.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Support:<\/strong> \u201cI want to mention all those who\u2019ve followed my career and those who were keen to see me become a world champion. I received a lot of love from people from different countries. I want to share this award with my family in Argentina and my wife and my children.\"<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dedication to Diego:<\/strong> \u201cAnd I want to mention Diego. There\u2019s no better place to wish him a happy birthday than here with all of you people from within the game. Wherever you are, \u2018Happy birthday, Diego!'\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Award for efforts:<\/strong> \u201cI never imagined I\u2019d have the career I have. I\u2019m lucky enough to have achieved everything in football, which is no mean feat. I was at the best club in the world and in the history of the game and that made things more straightforward. I won many trophies there. I have been part of many defeats with Argentina, but I never gave up trying to win the Copa Am\u00e9rica and the World Cup. I feel very proud of having kept on going.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Glory with Argentina: \u201cI thank my national-team team-mates. I&#8217;m representing all of my team-mates. This is a gift for the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":22929,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-22926","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-noticias-en","8":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/messi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/messi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/messi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/messi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/messi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22926"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/messi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22926\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22932,"href":"https:\/\/messi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22926\/revisions\/22932"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/messi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/messi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/messi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/messi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}