{"id":182910,"date":"2026-03-08T06:26:22","date_gmt":"2026-03-08T06:26:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/182910\/"},"modified":"2026-03-08T06:26:22","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T06:26:22","slug":"lionel-messi-argentina-star-one-away-from-900-career-goals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/182910\/","title":{"rendered":"Lionel Messi: Argentina star one away from 900 career goals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Lionel Messi is one strike away from reaching 900 career goals after scoring for Inter Miami against DC United on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Argentina star, 38, scored his side&#8217;s second midway through the first half with a deft finish.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Since signing in June 2023, the eight-time Ballon d&#8217;Or winner has scored 80 times for Inter Miami.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Messi scored 672 goals for Barcelona, 32 for PSG and has 115 goals for three-time world champions Argentina.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He will next get the chance to score his 900th career goal when Inter Miami play Nashville on 11 March.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Should he reach the landmark as expected, he will join long-time rival Cristiano Ronaldo, who scored his 900th career goal against Croatia in September 2024.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lionel Messi is one strike away from reaching 900 career goals after scoring for Inter Miami against DC&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":182911,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124],"class_list":["post-182910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182910\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/182911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}