{"id":621746,"date":"2026-10-05T23:56:15","date_gmt":"2026-10-05T23:56:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/621746\/"},"modified":"2026-10-05T23:56:15","modified_gmt":"2026-10-05T23:56:15","slug":"lionel-messi-set-for-emotional-argentina-farewell-in-buenos-aires-friendly-vs-benin-stuff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/621746\/","title":{"rendered":"Lionel Messi set for emotional Argentina farewell in Buenos Aires friendly vs Benin &#8211; Stuff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMimAFBVV95cUxNajFuZmZQV1phZ25qT21QWnlVY010OWVpeVh6UnZ1djNSbWctakFhVU1rMl9GSWtJVHhqdmwwTy05dmZ6OFBxbnZvWDZXakNRUS1mdjY1VV9uYlNOdkRRaVFkWTROMGFqZkYtSkZ6NE56T0p6ZlV0dy00OFRBbzUzRkdVd3c3X1BfLTllYjdZMUpEYUw5dk9tcA?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Lionel Messi set for emotional Argentina farewell in Buenos Aires friendly vs Benin<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;Stuff<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMitgFBVV95cUxQaGMxd25mY1pvQll4RGZmV3p6bHRnZjlnTC10RVdvS2RiRTMxVy00OU4wRXNhMDZ4VXRpLVlsSnIzVmJFMXBtRVdEUmdESjd6ZXlyeWwwdVNTeE12OFItZ1d0MzRJLTR4NDhKOVIyVmpVQ1NIeVdxRmlWWlotZUJWSGZ1Um4zYnNiV3JjMlhhRzlzb1NCeVVEc0xoeVRPMzdFa0ZZM3JadzY0MzBYS3pfTUMwNUg4UQ?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Lionel Messi readies for final farewell in Argentina send-off<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;NZ Herald<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMisAFBVV95cUxQOEZQQ0RKbDRacGJ3VzNRNl9EWTA4Qmd5eUVJY254S1QyQ1RwLXN4VGNUQUZNZXoyNXhpQXIwR1lPWmdvUk1HMW9QS2JCdEdiSnYyTlRfS05YeG9GcnF6U2NYWlpmVjJXMl9sNERCQU9MY3AtOVpza0d2S0lvMFFfRU5KY2VXbldzcUxqYV9pcGctQUMzUDZqbzJqNUZIc3M0MXVycFJwQ0liWkNYNjZqeg?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Lionel Messi farewell closes a long, hard-won love story with Argentina<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;RNZ<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMilAFBVV95cUxPQ3BKYl8wTklLVDNudEJUU3A0Rng0Mkp6bG5JbjVaZjNuRjE1UjQ1bnYwd2ZmOGZlZHN0WTBNX3ktOGZGbkVKUXlRRklqVFNleTdZcVVpc1cwQmtONS1yZVBnVTJUZFBSSlpwMVpmUEpJai1vM1VmQkJYd0lYN1JlMkpIYW56a0JuRTUyeE5IemIxVkVH?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Argentina won&#8217;t rush to re-assign Lionel Messi&#8217;s No. 10<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;ESPN<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMilAFBVV95cUxQc1JRMUhqYWRtbHpDOVZ5cFNiSEZxQ19rQ0dlaTI3dlRpNnh5MDVFQzQ2NlpPMzRaV3dkOVVycDNBVlN5eFlESS1aV0lvNkRCYUlCaEVUN2R1eE0tbllqcHZsMUMtT3BjTS14dzc3czRWZGZhTENZX3BmcWpBQnlSVzRZdnUyenVpY2JrYlUwWDI1OG15?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Lionel Messi returns to Argentina ahead of emotional farewell match with national team<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;AP News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lionel Messi set for emotional Argentina farewell in Buenos Aires friendly vs Benin&nbsp;&nbsp;StuffLionel Messi readies for final farewell&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":621747,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[111,43,139,69,213],"class_list":["post-621746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=621746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621746\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/621747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=621746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=621746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=621746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}