{"id":394638,"date":"2026-04-16T04:30:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T04:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/394638\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T04:30:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T04:30:07","slug":"lionel-messi-accused-of-breaching-7-million-contract-by-sitting-out-a-florida-soccer-friendly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/394638\/","title":{"rendered":"Lionel Messi accused of breaching $7 million contract by sitting out a Florida soccer friendly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"K6ICOJJXAZCTNFENSPJWTSZ4U4\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">MIAMI \u2014 Lionel Messi is being sued by a Miami-based event promoter who says the soccer icon violated terms of a $7 million contract by missing an exhibition match last year.<\/p>\n<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"N57XIOZAWFERFFEEDHV7DPW6F4\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">Vid Music Group filed the lawsuit for fraud and breach of contract against Messi and the Argentine Football Association in Miami-Dade circuit court last month, according to court records.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MIAMI \u2014 Lionel Messi is being sued by a Miami-based event promoter who says the soccer icon violated&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":394639,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[782,122,85,46,4675,187550,187549,19711,105,917],"class_list":{"0":"post-394638","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-courts","9":"tag-general-news","10":"tag-il","11":"tag-israel","12":"tag-lawsuits","13":"tag-mls-soccer","14":"tag-soc-lionel-messi-lawsuit","15":"tag-soccer","16":"tag-sports","17":"tag-u-s-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=394638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394638\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/394639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=394638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}