{"id":28919,"date":"2026-06-16T01:55:54","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T05:55:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/messi.com\/?p=28919"},"modified":"2026-06-16T01:55:55","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T05:55:55","slug":"leo-begins-his-sixth-world-cup-and-reaches-200-appearances-with-argentina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/messi.com\/en\/leo-begins-his-sixth-world-cup-and-reaches-200-appearances-with-argentina\/","title":{"rendered":"LEO BEGINS HIS SIXTH WORLD CUP AND REACHES 200 APPEARANCES WITH ARGENTINA"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pl-28919\"  class=\"panel-layout\" ><div id=\"pg-28919-0\"  class=\"panel-grid panel-no-style\" ><div id=\"pgc-28919-0-0\"  class=\"panel-grid-cell\" ><div id=\"panel-28919-0-0-0\" 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-28919-0-0-0\" ><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>Leo takes the field tonight with Argentina for their opening match of the 2026 World Cup at Kansas\u2019 Arrowhead Stadium against Algeria, in a Group J fixture. With this appearance, the Argentine reaches 200 matches for the national team and enters his sixth World Cup, having previously featured in 2006, 2010, 2014, 2018, 2022 and now 2026, accumulating 26 World Cup matches prior to tonight\u2019s kickoff.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><!--StartFragment --><\/p>\n<p><!--StartFragment --><\/p>\n<p><!--StartFragment --><\/p>\n<p><!--StartFragment --><\/p>\n<p><!--StartFragment --><\/p>\n<p><!--EndFragment --><\/p>\n<p><!--EndFragment --><\/p>\n<p><!--EndFragment --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leo takes the field tonight with Argentina for their opening match of the 2026 World Cup at Kansas\u2019 Arrowhead Stadium [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":28929,"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-28919","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\/28919","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=28919"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/messi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28919\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28925,"href":"https:\/\/messi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28919\/revisions\/28925"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/messi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/messi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/messi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/messi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}