{"id":29334,"date":"2026-07-18T08:00:31","date_gmt":"2026-07-18T12:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/messi.com\/?p=29334"},"modified":"2026-07-18T08:00:31","modified_gmt":"2026-07-18T12:00:31","slug":"leo-aims-to-win-argentinas-fourth-world-cup-against-spain-and-his-second-in-a-row","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/messi.com\/en\/leo-aims-to-win-argentinas-fourth-world-cup-against-spain-and-his-second-in-a-row\/","title":{"rendered":"LEO AIMS TO WIN ARGENTINA\u2019S FOURTH WORLD CUP AGAINST SPAIN AND HIS SECOND IN A ROW"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pl-29334\"  class=\"panel-layout\" ><div id=\"pg-29334-0\"  class=\"panel-grid panel-no-style\" ><div id=\"pgc-29334-0-0\"  class=\"panel-grid-cell\" ><div id=\"panel-29334-0-0-0\" 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-29334-0-0-0\" ><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 the 2026 World Cup final this Sunday with Argentina against Spain. The Argentine heads into the match at MetLife Stadium in New Jersey as the tournament\u2019s top scorer with eight goals, after providing both assists in Argentina\u2019s semifinal victory over England.<\/p>\n<p>Throughout history, the two national teams have faced each other 14 times, with an evenly balanced record: 6 wins for Argentina, 6 wins for Spain, and 2 draws.<\/p>\n<p>Leo has scored two goals against Spain in friendly matches: the first in Argentina\u2019s 4\u20131 victory in 2010, and the second in a 2\u20131 defeat in 2009.<\/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 the 2026 World Cup final this Sunday with Argentina against Spain. The Argentine heads into the match [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":29337,"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-29334","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\/29334","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=29334"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/messi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29334\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29340,"href":"https:\/\/messi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29334\/revisions\/29340"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/messi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/messi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/messi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/messi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}