{"id":7187,"date":"2026-08-13T01:05:46","date_gmt":"2026-08-13T01:05:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/?p=7187"},"modified":"2026-08-13T01:05:46","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T01:05:46","slug":"lionel-messi-returns-to-inter-miami-action-after-fathers-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/?p=7187","title":{"rendered":"Lionel Messi Returns To Inter Miami Action After Father&#039;s Death"},"content":{"rendered":"<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-273d04fe>Lionel Messi came off the bench as a second-half substitute in Inter Miami&#8217;s Leagues Cup match against L\u00e9on, marking his first on-pitch appearance since the death of his father.<\/p>\n<p>Jorge Messi, who passed away last week at 68, served as Lionel Messi&#8217;s agent during the eight-time Ballon d&#8217;Or winner&#8217;s career.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-273d04fe>In an emotional post on Instagram remembering his father, Lionel Messi stated: &#8220;I don\u2019t know what I\u2019m going to do without you. I don\u2019t know how to carry on. All I ever did was play football, and now I have serious doubts about whether I\u2019ll keep doing it for much longer.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-273d04fe>The 39-year-old Argentina superstar striker, who won the 2022 World Cup, are coming off a extra-time loss to Spain in the 2026 World Cup Final.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-273d04fe>Messi, who&#8217;s one of just two players to appear in six World Cups (Portugal legend Cristiano Ronaldo is the other), tallied eight goals and four assists across eight matches in the 2026 World Cup.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-273d04fe>Messi is in the midst of his third full-time season and fourth season altogether with Inter Miami in MLS. Through 15 matches in the 2026 MLS season, Messi has totaled 12 goals and seven assists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BROWSE BY Lionel Messi came off the bench as a second-half substitute in Inter Miami&#8217;s Leagues Cup match against L\u00e9on, marking his first on-pitch appearance since the death of his father. Jorge Messi, who passed away last week at 68, served as Lionel Messi&#8217;s agent during the eight-time Ballon d&#8217;Or winner&#8217;s career. In an emotional [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":7186,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7187","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\/7187","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=7187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7187\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}