{"id":802661,"date":"2026-07-15T22:02:17","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T22:02:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/802661\/"},"modified":"2026-07-15T22:02:17","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T22:02:17","slug":"fifa-world-cup-2026-live-scores-england-vs-argentina-semi-final-results-highlights-latest-news-heartbreak-for-english-fans-as-argentina-win-2-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/802661\/","title":{"rendered":"FIFA World Cup 2026 LIVE scores: England vs Argentina Semi-final results, highlights, latest news; Heartbreak for English fans as Argentina win 2-1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Only two nations in the history of the World Cup have successfully defended their title. Italy did it in 1934 and 1938, Brazil then achieved the feat in 1958 and 1962.<\/p>\n<p>No men\u2019s national team has managed to replicate that feat since 1962. <\/p>\n<p>If Argentina do so on Monday, Kevin-Prince Boateng feels the best thing for superstar Lionel Messi to do is to call time on his career.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy recommendation for him would  just be to retire in that moment,\u201d he declared on SBS.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt simply can\u2019t get any better. He would be the biggest ever footballer, whether you like him or not. Winning it twice and being so clutch, it is incredible. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe way (Argentina and the playing group) celebrates him &#8230; he is there No.10.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Messi celebrates alone after a semi final victory\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/8d1cc896f1ccd86d3cbffd91dc5a99238cc63ec2.jpeg\"  width=\"100%\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"_0b53bae146db0b62 _7475dd3391ee1518\" style=\"--text-color:var(--color-text-secondary)\">Messi celebrates alone after a semi final victory\u00a0Getty Images<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Only two nations in the history of the World Cup have successfully defended their title. Italy did it&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":802662,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":["post-802661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-football","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=802661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802661\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/802662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=802661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=802661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=802661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}