{"id":334261,"date":"2026-07-09T12:15:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T12:15:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/334261\/"},"modified":"2026-07-09T12:15:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T12:15:10","slug":"video-antoine-griezmann-scores-on-orlando-city-debut-as-he-looks-forward-to-lionel-messi-showdown-in-mls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/334261\/","title":{"rendered":"VIDEO: Antoine Griezmann scores on Orlando City debut as he looks forward to Lionel Messi showdown in MLS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Griezmann&#8217;s presence provided an instant impact for The Lions&#8217; frontline ahead of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-ug\/major-league-soccer\/287tckirbfj9nb8ar2k9r60vn\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-affiliate-type=\"NONE\">resumption of the domestic competition<\/a>. Before taking to the pitch and scoring his first goal for Orlando, the experienced forward shared his enthusiasm about competing once again against Messi, his former Barcelona team-mate, in the Florida derby. Griezmann said: &#8220;They&#8217;ve told me a lot about the derby. I watched the last one. It&#8217;ll be a joy to face Messi again, and also Rodrigo [De Paul], who I have a very good relationship with.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Griezmann&#8217;s presence provided an instant impact for The Lions&#8217; frontline ahead of the resumption of the domestic competition.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":334262,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[79220,8003,139,4786,141,140],"class_list":["post-334261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-a-griezmann","tag-major-league-soccer","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-city","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334261","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=334261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334261\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/334262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=334261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=334261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=334261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}