{"id":217168,"date":"2026-04-03T22:48:20","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T22:48:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=217168"},"modified":"2026-04-03T22:48:20","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T22:48:20","slug":"messi-to-lead-argentina-in-friendly-with-guatemala-ahead-of-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=217168","title":{"rendered":"Messi to lead Argentina in friendly with Guatemala ahead of World Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BUENOS AIRES, Argentina \u2014 Lionel Messi was called up Wednesday for a March 31 friendly match against Guatemala as Argentina gears up to defend its title in the World Cup.<br \/>\nThe game at La Bombonera in Buenos Aires was arranged after the Finalissima between Argentina and Spain on March 27 in Qatar was called off because of the conflict in the Middle East&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/fifa-world-cup\/article\/messi-to-lead-argentina-in-friendly-with-guatemala-ahead-of-world-cup\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BUENOS AIRES, Argentina \u2014 Lionel Messi was called up Wednesday for a March 31 friendly<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":217169,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-217168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-qtr"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/217168-messi-to-lead-argentina-in-friendly-with-guatemala-ahead-of-world-cup.jpg",1280,720,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/217168-messi-to-lead-argentina-in-friendly-with-guatemala-ahead-of-world-cup-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/217168-messi-to-lead-argentina-in-friendly-with-guatemala-ahead-of-world-cup-300x169.jpg",300,169,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/217168-messi-to-lead-argentina-in-friendly-with-guatemala-ahead-of-world-cup-768x432.jpg",640,360,true],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/217168-messi-to-lead-argentina-in-friendly-with-guatemala-ahead-of-world-cup-1024x576.jpg",640,360,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/217168-messi-to-lead-argentina-in-friendly-with-guatemala-ahead-of-world-cup.jpg",1280,720,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/217168-messi-to-lead-argentina-in-friendly-with-guatemala-ahead-of-world-cup.jpg",1280,720,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/217168-messi-to-lead-argentina-in-friendly-with-guatemala-ahead-of-world-cup-1024x576.jpg",1024,576,true],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/217168-messi-to-lead-argentina-in-friendly-with-guatemala-ahead-of-world-cup-825x575.jpg",825,575,true],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/217168-messi-to-lead-argentina-in-friendly-with-guatemala-ahead-of-world-cup-590x410.jpg",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=29\" rel=\"category\">Qatar<\/a>","tag_info":"Qatar","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=217168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217168\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/217169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=217168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=217168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=217168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}