{"id":122379,"date":"2026-07-19T00:36:29","date_gmt":"2026-07-19T00:36:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/19\/hes-not-the-best-ex-india-coach-makes-bold-messi-claim-before-world-cup-final\/"},"modified":"2026-07-19T00:36:29","modified_gmt":"2026-07-19T00:36:29","slug":"hes-not-the-best-ex-india-coach-makes-bold-messi-claim-before-world-cup-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/19\/hes-not-the-best-ex-india-coach-makes-bold-messi-claim-before-world-cup-final\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;He&#8217;s not the best&#8217;: Ex-India coach makes bold Messi claim before World Cup final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Stephen Constantine believes Lionel Messi is not football&#8217;s greatest player ever. He ranks Pel\u00e9, Maradona, and Ronaldinho above the Argentine star. Constantine suggests Argentina&#8217;s tactics help Messi conserve energy during matches. He predicts Spain will defeat Argentina in the World Cup final. The former India coach highlights Spain&#8217;s collective work ethic as key.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stephen Constantine believes Lionel Messi is not football&#8217;s greatest player ever. He ranks Pel\u00e9, Maradona, and Ronaldinho above the Argentine star. Constantine suggests Argentina&#8217;s tactics help Messi conserve energy during matches. He predicts Spain will defeat Argentina in the World Cup final. The former India coach highlights Spain&#8217;s collective work ethic as key.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":122380,"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\/122379"}],"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=122379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122379\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/122380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}