{"id":29607,"date":"2026-10-07T08:03:31","date_gmt":"2026-10-07T12:03:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/messi.com\/?p=29607"},"modified":"2026-10-07T08:03:31","modified_gmt":"2026-10-07T12:03:31","slug":"emotional-farewell-for-leo-with-a-goal-and-two-assists-in-his-final-match","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/messi.com\/en\/emotional-farewell-for-leo-with-a-goal-and-two-assists-in-his-final-match\/","title":{"rendered":"EMOTIONAL FAREWELL FOR LEO WITH A GOAL AND TWO ASSISTS IN HIS FINAL MATCH"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pl-29607\"  class=\"panel-layout\" ><div id=\"pg-29607-0\"  class=\"panel-grid panel-no-style\" ><div id=\"pgc-29607-0-0\"  class=\"panel-grid-cell\" ><div id=\"panel-29607-0-0-0\" 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-29607-0-0-0\" ><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 played his final game for Argentina on Tuesday at the Monumental, a friendly against Benin in which he scored once and provided two assists. The Argentine star\u2019s farewell ended with a 3\u20130 win for Argentina and an emotional send-off in Buenos Aires.<\/p>\n<p>Over more than two decades, Leo made 208 appearances for the national team, wearing the number 19 in his early years and the number 10 during his prime, while also serving as captain. His journey with the Albiceleste closes with 126 goals, 71 assists and six official titles, including a World Cup, a Finalissima and two Copa Am\u00e9rica trophies.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leo played his final game for Argentina on Tuesday at the Monumental, a friendly against Benin in which he scored [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":29610,"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-29607","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\/29607","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=29607"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/messi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29607\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29613,"href":"https:\/\/messi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29607\/revisions\/29613"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/messi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/messi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/messi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/messi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}