{"id":3485,"date":"2025-10-14T23:15:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T23:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/3485\/"},"modified":"2025-10-14T23:15:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T23:15:07","slug":"argentina-faces-puerto-rico-at-chase-stadium-in-historic-matchup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/3485\/","title":{"rendered":"Argentina faces Puerto Rico at Chase Stadium in historic matchup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0October 14, 2025 at 7:03 PM<\/p>\n<p>Expand<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/7NBHPV5FFNDYJFVH54CYXJPUOA.jpg\"  width=\"1280\" height=\"720\"\/>(WPLG) <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla.  \u2014 South Florida fans will get a chance to see a first-ever international matchup between Argentina and Puerto Rico at Chase Stadium on Tuesday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The friendly, originally scheduled for Chicago, was moved to Fort Lauderdale, giving local fans an unprecedented opportunity to watch top soccer talent in person.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Argentina, reigning FIFA World Cup and back-to-back Copa America champions, could feature superstar Lionel Messi. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">He recently returned from international duty and did not play in Argentina\u2019s match against Venezuela in Miami last week, allowing him to suit up for Inter Miami in the team\u2019s penultimate regular-season game, where he scored twice.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Argentinian coach Lionel Scaloni said Messi would play only if he is fit, prioritizing his health over the match.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">For Puerto Rico, the game is a chance for young players to gain experience against a star-studded opponent. Fans who quickly purchased tickets are expecting a historic night at Chase Stadium.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The match is set for 8 p.m. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-article-body__copyright\">Copyright 2025 by WPLG Local10.com &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0October 14, 2025 at 7:03 PM Expand(WPLG) FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. \u2014 South Florida fans will get a chance&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3486,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[249,251,250],"class_list":["post-3485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale-headlines","tag-fort-lauderdale-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3485","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=3485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3485\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}