{"id":29198,"date":"2026-07-06T15:31:16","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T19:31:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/messi.com\/?p=29198"},"modified":"2026-07-06T15:34:06","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T19:34:06","slug":"leo-faces-egypt-in-the-world-cup-round-of-16-as-the-tournaments-top-scorer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/messi.com\/en\/leo-faces-egypt-in-the-world-cup-round-of-16-as-the-tournaments-top-scorer\/","title":{"rendered":"LEO FACES EGYPT IN THE WORLD CUP ROUND OF 16 AS THE TOURNAMENT\u2019S TOP SCORER"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pl-29198\"  class=\"panel-layout\" ><div id=\"pg-29198-0\"  class=\"panel-grid panel-no-style\" ><div id=\"pgc-29198-0-0\"  class=\"panel-grid-cell\" ><div id=\"panel-29198-0-0-0\" 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-29198-0-0-0\" ><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 will play this Tuesday in the Round of 16 of the 2026 World Cup with Argentina against Egypt. The Argentine arrives in Atlanta as the tournament\u2019s top scorer with 7 goals, having scored in every match played so far. Argentina and Egypt have faced each other twice in history in friendly matches. The first time was in 1928 in Cairo, and the match ended 6\u20130 in favor of the current world champions. The second match took place in 2008, also with a victory for Argentina.<\/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 will play this Tuesday in the Round of 16 of the 2026 World Cup with Argentina against Egypt. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":29204,"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-29198","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\/29198","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=29198"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/messi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29198\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29207,"href":"https:\/\/messi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29198\/revisions\/29207"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/messi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/messi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/messi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/messi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}