{"id":123948,"date":"2026-07-26T03:36:37","date_gmt":"2026-07-26T03:36:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/26\/lionel-messi-seen-for-first-time-since-painful-world-cup-final-loss\/"},"modified":"2026-07-26T03:36:37","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T03:36:37","slug":"lionel-messi-seen-for-first-time-since-painful-world-cup-final-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/26\/lionel-messi-seen-for-first-time-since-painful-world-cup-final-loss\/","title":{"rendered":"Lionel Messi seen for first time since painful World Cup final loss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lionel Messi made his first public appearance after Argentina\u2019s heartbreaking 2026 World Cup final defeat to Spain by attending a local match in Rosario. The emotional captain spent time with family, supported his brother\u2019s football club Leones FC, and avoided media attention. Messi will soon return to Inter Miami after recovering from the demanding tournament.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lionel Messi made his first public appearance after Argentina\u2019s heartbreaking 2026 World Cup final defeat to Spain by attending a local match in Rosario. The emotional captain spent time with family, supported his brother\u2019s football club Leones FC, and avoided media attention. Messi will soon return to Inter Miami after recovering from the demanding tournament.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":123949,"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\/123948"}],"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=123948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123948\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/123949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}