{"id":7023,"date":"2026-07-21T01:54:48","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T01:54:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/?p=7023"},"modified":"2026-07-21T01:54:48","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T01:54:48","slug":"topps-to-release-iconic-photo-of-messi-holding-baby-lamine-yamal-as-trading-card","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/?p=7023","title":{"rendered":"Topps To Release Iconic Photo Of Messi Holding Baby Lamine Yamal As Trading Card"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"subnav-title ff-ffc bold fs-23 lh-25 uc pd-b-10\">\n            POPULAR SEARCHES\n          <\/p>\n<p class=\"subnav-title ff-ffc bold fs-23 lh-25 uc pd-b-10\">\n            BROWSE BY\n          <\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-a2155f14>Topps is creating a trading card of what became a famous photo during the World Cup of Argentina&#8217;s Lionel Messi holding Spain&#8217;s Lamine Yamal, the company said Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-a2155f14>Messi, whom many consider soccer&#8217;s greatest player, was photographed holding Yamal, then an infant and now a 19-year-old rising star. The two met in Sunday&#8217;s final, with Yamal and Spain defeating Messi and Argentina 1-0.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-a2155f14>That game was a potential changing of the guard with the 39-year-old Messi perhaps playing in his final World Cup.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-a2155f14>Playing for Barcelona at the time of the initial meeting with Yamal, Messi took part in a fundraising drive for UNICEF and wound up holding the player who could be the future face of the sport. Yamal has followed in Messi&#8217;s footsteps by becoming Barcelona&#8217;s standout player.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-a2155f14><i>Reporting by The Associated Press<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>POPULAR SEARCHES BROWSE BY Topps is creating a trading card of what became a famous photo during the World Cup of Argentina&#8217;s Lionel Messi holding Spain&#8217;s Lamine Yamal, the company said Monday. Messi, whom many consider soccer&#8217;s greatest player, was photographed holding Yamal, then an infant and now a 19-year-old rising star. The two met [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":7022,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-soccer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7023\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}