{"id":27749,"date":"2021-09-02T06:40:47","date_gmt":"2021-09-02T06:40:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/?p=27749"},"modified":"2021-09-02T06:40:47","modified_gmt":"2021-09-02T06:40:47","slug":"messi-fit-to-play-for-argentina-despite-lack-of-game-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/2021\/09\/02\/messi-fit-to-play-for-argentina-despite-lack-of-game-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Messi fit to play for Argentina despite lack of game time"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4 id=\"leadtext\"><strong>Lionel Messi is fit enough to play in Argentina\u2019s World Cup qualifiers this week in spite of having played less than half an hour this season for his new club Paris St Germain, coach Lionel Scaloni said on Wednesday.<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>After talking with him I have no doubts,&#8221; Scaloni told reporters the day before Argentina face Venezuela in Caracas.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Although he doesn\u2019t have the same game time (he had with Barcelona) he is going to play and we hope in all three games.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Messi has not played a full match since July 10, when he started for Argentina in the Copa America final.<\/p>\n<p>Much of his time since has been dominated by his move to Paris after 18 years with Barcelona.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lionel Messi is fit enough to play in Argentina&rsquo;s World Cup qualifiers this week in spite of having played less than half an hour this season for his new club Paris St Germain, coach Lionel Scaloni said on Wednesday. After talking with him I have no doubts,&rdquo; Scaloni told reporters the day before Argentina face Venezuela in Caracas. &ldquo;Although he doesn&rsquo;t have the same game time (he had with Barcelona) he is going to play and we hope in all three games.&rdquo; Messi has not played a full match since<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":27758,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[30,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27749"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27749"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27749\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27759,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27749\/revisions\/27759"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}