{"id":9136,"date":"2026-07-18T02:00:50","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T21:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=9136"},"modified":"2026-07-18T02:00:50","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T21:00:50","slug":"lionel-messi-lamine-yamal-photo-from-2007-goes-viral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=9136","title":{"rendered":"Lionel Messi, Lamine Yamal Photo From 2007 Goes Viral"},"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><span style=\"font-weight:400\">The midfielder added, \u201cHopefully we\u2019re going to see a very bright final with those two protagonists at their best, playing and giving all the fans a great spectacle.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">Meanwhile, the photographer who snapped the pic, <\/span><strong>Joan Monfort<\/strong><span style=\"font-weight:400\">, can\u2019t help but feel like he scored a golden goal by capturing moment.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">\u201cI have never been a believer or thought that anything was destined to occur,\u201d he told the Associated Press in an interview published July 17, \u201cbut I am beginning to have my doubts. This is beyond all reasonable explanations.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">As he put it, \u201cAnd now this has culminated with the final between Messi and Yamal. It is better than any film script.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">Messi and Yamal meet once more when the 2026 World Cup final takes place on July 19.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">Though Messi and Yamal\u2019s lore runs deep at the 2026 World Cup, they aren\u2019t the only stars who took North America by storm during the tournament. Keep reading to see more notable athletes who competed\u2026\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<script async=\"async\" data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/pl30214220.effectivecpmnetwork.com\/9ab3d4df8a7e1a6171e16ddbf732cc19\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<div id=\"container-9ab3d4df8a7e1a6171e16ddbf732cc19\"><\/div>\r\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The midfielder added, \u201cHopefully we\u2019re going to see a very bright final with those two protagonists at their best, playing and giving all the fans a great spectacle.\u201d Meanwhile, the photographer who snapped the pic, Joan Monfort, can\u2019t help but feel like he scored a golden goal by capturing moment. \u201cI have never been a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9137,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/akns-images.eonline.com\/eol_images\/Entire_Site\/20260717\/feb2b349-e816-406f-ba2d-22ba54a01a55_1784305132.jpg?fit=around%7C1200:1200&output-quality=90&crop=1200:1200;center,top","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pics-news"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9136","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=9136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9136\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}