{"id":117962,"date":"2025-09-03T23:58:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T23:58:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/117962\/"},"modified":"2025-09-03T23:58:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T23:58:07","slug":"leo-messi-reportedly-blackballed-pedro-de-la-vega-from-argentina-national-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/117962\/","title":{"rendered":"Leo Messi reportedly \u2018blackballed\u2019 Pedro de la Vega from Argentina national team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pedro de la Vega rightfully was named the Player of the Tournament at Leagues Cup after scoring three goals and generally being the Seattle Sounders\u2019 most dynamic performer.<\/p>\n<p>But it wasn\u2019t just his offense that was impressive. The Argentinian winger was an absolute pest on defense, constantly harassing opposing wingers and playing the sort of two-way soccer that attracted the Sounders to him in the first place. That included Sunday\u2019s final, where he was a constant thorn in the side of countryman Leo Messi, who had <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fotmob.com\/players\/30981\/lionel-messi?ref=sounderatheart.com\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">one of his least effective games<\/a> since coming to MLS.<\/p>\n<p>Apparently, Messi didn\u2019t appreciate the effort.<\/p>\n<p>            This post is for subscribers only<br \/>\n            <a class=\"gh-btn\" data-portal=\"signup\" href=\"#\/portal\/signup\" style=\"color:#0033A0\">Subscribe now<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Already have an account? <a data-portal=\"signin\" href=\"#\/portal\/signin\">Sign in<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pedro de la Vega rightfully was named the Player of the Tournament at Leagues Cup after scoring three&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":117963,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,561,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-117962","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-soccer","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117962\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/117963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}