{"id":41665,"date":"2026-08-12T21:32:38","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T16:32:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=41665"},"modified":"2026-08-12T21:32:38","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T16:32:38","slug":"lionel-messi-details-his-future-in-soccer-after-dads-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=41665","title":{"rendered":"Lionel Messi Details His Future in Soccer After Dad\u2019s Death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script>\r\n  atOptions = {\r\n    'key' : '644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6',\r\n    'format' : 'iframe',\r\n    'height' : 90,\r\n    'width' : 728,\r\n    'params' : {}\r\n  };\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script src=\"https:\/\/www.highperformanceformat.com\/644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"segment-text-only\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/LeoMessi\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Lionel Messi<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0is struggling to put one foot in front of the other.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Following the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1434824\/lionel-messis-father-jorge-messi-dead-at-68-after-health-battle\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noopener noreferrer\">death of his father <strong>Jorge Messi<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0at the age of 68 in early August, the man widely considered the GOAT of soccer shared a raw look at his ongoing grief.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDad, I still can&#8217;t believe you&#8217;re gone,\u201d he began an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/Db8MYnQjYsC\/?img_index=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noopener noreferrer\">Aug. 12 statement<\/a>, translated from Spanish. \u201cIt hasn&#8217;t sunk in,, I don&#8217;t want it to sink in. It\u2019s so hard to imagine that I won\u2019t see you again, that we won\u2019t talk anymore. I know you were suffering and that this is for the best, but you left too soon. We still had so much left to enjoy together.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Messi also detailed his experience in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/world_cup\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noopener noreferrer\">2026 World Cup<\/a>, including how his father encouraged him to play, but that his health took a turn for the worse immediately before the tournament began, preventing him from attending any games.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><script async=\"async\" data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/pl30214220.effectivecpmnetwork.com\/9ab3d4df8a7e1a6171e16ddbf732cc19\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<div id=\"container-9ab3d4df8a7e1a6171e16ddbf732cc19\"><\/div>\r\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lionel Messi\u00a0is struggling to put one foot in front of the other.\u00a0 Following the death of his father Jorge Messi\u00a0at the age of 68 in early August, the man widely considered the GOAT of soccer shared a raw look at his ongoing grief. \u201cDad, I still can&#8217;t believe you&#8217;re gone,\u201d he began an Aug. 12&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41666,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/akns-images.eonline.com\/eol_images\/Entire_Site\/20260812\/6ef04ddb-c7e3-46f5-be8f-5ab8d0c7bd83_1786550217.jpg?fit=around%7C1200:1200&output-quality=90&crop=1200:1200;center,top","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-newsweek-trending"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41665\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/41666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}