Argentina vice president Victoria Villarruel sparked controversy before the FIFA World Cup 2026 semi-final against England by calling the Three Lions “pirate usurpers” and invoking the Falklands (Malvinas), Diego Maradona and Lionel Messi. Her remarks came ahead of Messi’s first-ever international meeting with England, as the defending champions chase a place in the final against Spain.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Argentina vice president Victoria Villarruel sparked controversy before the FIFA World Cup 2026 semi-final against England by calling the Three Lions “pirate usurpers” and invoking the Falklands (Malvinas), Diego Maradona and Lionel Messi. Her remarks came ahead of Messi’s first-ever international meeting with England, as the defending champions chase a place in the final against… Read More »‘It’s about standing up to invaders’: Argentina vice-prez calls England ‘pirate usurpers’<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":121661,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121660"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121660\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/121661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}