{"id":7259,"date":"2026-08-31T18:54:24","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T18:54:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/?p=7259"},"modified":"2026-08-31T18:54:24","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T18:54:24","slug":"looking-back-at-lionel-messis-historic-world-cup-career","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/?p=7259","title":{"rendered":"Looking Back At Lionel Messi&#039;s Historic World Cup Career"},"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-0a453225>The greatest of all time. Thank you, Messi.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-0a453225>On Monday morning, Lionel Messi announced that he has retired from international play, culminating a 22-year career with Argentina that included a World Cup title.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-0a453225>Across six World Cup appearances, Messi has led Argentina to the quarterfinals or better five times and reached the final three times. His r\u00e9sum\u00e9 includes six World Cup appearances, 34 matches, 21 goals, 12 assists and countless records, many of which he extended during his historic tournament this summer.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-0a453225>His legacy on the tournament\u2019s biggest stage is unlike anything the sport has ever seen.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-0a453225>With Messi officially calling time on his legendary international career, let\u2019s look back at his remarkable World Cup journey, beginning with his all-time tournament records before revisiting each of his six appearances on soccer&#8217;s biggest stage.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-0a453225>To the &#8220;little boy from Rosario, Argentina,&#8221; it has been an absolute pleasure.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-0a453225><i>This page may contain affiliate links to legal sports betting partners. If you sign up or place a wager, FOX Sports may be compensated. Read more about <\/i><i><u>Sports Betting on FOX Sports<\/u><\/i><i>.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><span>\u00a0<\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span>\u00a0<\/span> <!--&gt;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span>\u00a0<\/span> --><\/p>\n<p><span>\u00a0<\/span> <!--&gt;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span>\u00a0<\/span> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BROWSE BY The greatest of all time. Thank you, Messi. On Monday morning, Lionel Messi announced that he has retired from international play, culminating a 22-year career with Argentina that included a World Cup title.\u00a0 Across six World Cup appearances, Messi has led Argentina to the quarterfinals or better five times and reached the final [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":7258,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7259","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\/7259","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=7259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7259\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}