{"id":357,"date":"2026-08-31T16:31:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T16:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kcfj570am.com\/?p=357"},"modified":"2026-08-31T16:31:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T16:31:08","slug":"lionel-messi-announces-retirement-from-argentina-national-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kcfj570am.com\/?p=357","title":{"rendered":"Lionel Messi announces retirement from Argentina national team"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2026-08-31\/Getty_LionelMessi_083126.jpg\" alt><figcaption>Lionel Messi #10 of Inter Miami CF celebrates scoring his team&#8217;s second goal during the MLS match between Inter Miami CF and CF Montreal at Nu Stadium on Aug. 29, 2026, in Miami, Florida. (Carmen Mandato\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>(NEW YORK) &#8212; Soccer legend\u00a0<span class=\"s1\">Lionel Messi<\/span>\u00a0announced his retirement from international soccer on Monday, saying he will no longer play for the Argentina national team.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">&#8220;After the time that passed since the final, thinking about it a lot, I want to communicate to everyone that I am retiring from the national team,&#8221; Messi wrote in a message shared on Instagram.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Messi last played for Argentina in the 2026 World Cup, where the team lost\u00a0<span class=\"s1\">in the finals<\/span>\u00a0to Spain, 2-1.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><em>This is a developing story. Please check back for updates.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lionel Messi #10 of Inter Miami CF celebrates scoring his team&#8217;s second goal during the MLS match between Inter Miami CF and CF Montreal at Nu Stadium on Aug. 29, 2026, in Miami, Florida. (Carmen Mandato\/Getty Images) (NEW YORK) &#8212; Soccer legend\u00a0Lionel Messi\u00a0announced his retirement from international soccer on Monday, saying he will no longer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":836,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kcfj570am.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kcfj570am.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kcfj570am.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kcfj570am.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kcfj570am.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kcfj570am.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kcfj570am.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kcfj570am.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kcfj570am.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kcfj570am.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}