{"id":5004,"date":"2026-06-17T13:21:28","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T13:21:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/times509.com\/?p=5004"},"modified":"2026-06-17T13:21:45","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T13:21:45","slug":"messi-downplays-world-cup-goal-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/times509.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/17\/messi-downplays-world-cup-goal-record\/","title":{"rendered":"Messi downplays World Cup goal record"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Despite rising to the top of the FIFA World Cup scorers, Lionel Messi made sure to downplay the significance of this achievement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;It&#8217;s an honor to find myself alongside Miroslav Klose and other greats, Ronaldo, Kylian Mbapp\u00e9 who scored two today. But I think it doesn&#8217;t mean anything, in the end, it&#8217;s just a statistic and nothing more,&#8221; said the captain of Argentina.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">With 16 goals in the World Cup, Messi has joined Miroslav Klose at the top of the all-time top scorers of this competition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite rising to the top of the FIFA World Cup scorers, Lionel Messi made sure to downplay the significance of this achievement. &#8220;It&#8217;s an honor to find myself alongside Miroslav&hellip;<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5005,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"googlesitekit_rrm_CAow67bgCw:productID":"","_angie_page":false,"content-type":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","_ayudawp_aiss_exclude":false,"_ayudawp_aiss_summary":"","_ayudawp_aiss_summary_provider":"","_ayudawp_aiss_summary_hash":"","page_builder":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[],"coauthors":[57],"class_list":["post-5004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-soccer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/times509.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/times509.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/times509.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/times509.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/times509.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5004"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/times509.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5004\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5006,"href":"https:\/\/times509.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5004\/revisions\/5006"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/times509.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/times509.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/times509.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/times509.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5004"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/times509.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=5004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}