{"id":293489,"date":"2025-11-15T16:10:15","date_gmt":"2025-11-15T16:10:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/293489\/"},"modified":"2025-11-15T16:10:15","modified_gmt":"2025-11-15T16:10:15","slug":"messi-messi-watch-fans-chant-as-argentina-arrives-in-angola","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/293489\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Messi, Messi\u2019 \u2013 Watch fans chant as Argentina arrives in Angola"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanaweb.com\/GhanaHomePage\/SportsArchive\/Messi-Messi-Watch-fans-chant-as-Argentina-arrives-in-Angola-2009538?gallery=1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/12923918.295.jpg\" alt=\"The president of Angola has honored Messi with an award\" title=\"The president of Angola has honored Messi with an award\" width=\"295\" height=\"164\" \/> <\/a>The president of Angola has honored Messi with an award<\/p>\n<p id=\"article-123\">Lionel Messi and the Argentina national team received massive applause upon their arrival in Luanda, Angola, ahead of their international friendly game.<\/p>\n<p>The team arrived on Thursday night, November 13, 2025, and thousands of fans in blue and white jerseys lined the streets, chanting Messi\u2019s name continuously.<\/p>\n<p>Supporters ran towards the team bus in excitement as military vehicles escorted them to their hotel.<\/p>\n<p>The World Cup champions will play a friendly against Angola at Est\u00e1dio 11 de Novembro on November 14, 2025, in an event funded by the government with \u20ac12 million.<\/p>\n<p>This initiative aims to enhance national pride and global connections despite economic hurdles, as part of the country\u2019s 50th independence anniversary celebrations.<\/p>\n<p>The visit underscores Messi\u2019s worldwide appeal, drawing massive crowds eager to see the legendary footballer in action, and promises to be an exciting encounter.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"it\" dir=\"ltr\" xml:lang=\"it\">Messi mania in Angola \ud83d\ude33\ud83c\udde6\ud83c\uddf4 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/jHvEHtNsfh\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/jHvEHtNsfh<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 433 (@433) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/433\/status\/1989116802992075009?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">November 13, 2025<\/a> <\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\" xml:lang=\"en\">\ud83d\udea8The President of Angola presented a special award to Leo Messi to celebrate the 50th Independence anniversary of the country.<\/p>\n<p>Messi is a symbol of unity\u26bd\ufe0f\u2764\ufe0f\ud83d\udc10 He unites all with his greatness <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/6NybRIygS2\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/6NybRIygS2<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 \ud835\udc02\ud835\udc00 \ud835\udc15\ud835\udc00?\ud83d\udc10\ud83d\udc10 (@psg_chief) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/psg_chief\/status\/1989367904517984281?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">November 14, 2025<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>SB\/JE<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The president of Angola has honored Messi with an award Lionel Messi and the Argentina national team received&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":293490,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[403,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-293489","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-soccer","9":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=293489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293489\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/293490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=293489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=293489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=293489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}