{"id":1539,"date":"2023-11-11T11:06:33","date_gmt":"2023-11-11T11:06:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/ive-always-admired-loved-him-messi-names-one-of-greatest-players-in-history\/"},"modified":"2023-11-11T11:06:33","modified_gmt":"2023-11-11T11:06:33","slug":"ive-always-admired-loved-him-messi-names-one-of-greatest-players-in-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/ive-always-admired-loved-him-messi-names-one-of-greatest-players-in-history\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I\u2019ve always admired, loved him\u2019 \u2013 Messi names one of greatest players in history"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Inter Miami captain, Lionel Messi has named Real Madrid legend Zinedine Zidane as one of the greatest players in history.<\/p>\n<p>Messi said he has always admired and loved the Frenchman.<\/p>\n<p>Zidane is widely regarded as one of the finest players to grace the football field.<\/p>\n<p>The former midfielder was known for his immaculate playmaking skills, dribbling ability, and elegance on the ball.<\/p>\n<p>Messi recently sat down with Zidane for an interview by Adidas Football.<\/p>\n<p>The Argentine said (h\/t @AlbicelesteTalk on X): \u201cI am not saying this because he is here, but I have said it several times before. Zidane is one of the greatest players in history, and I have always admired and loved him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI used to follow him a lot in Madrid and I also suffered from him a lot because I am from Barcelona. Zidane is elegance, art, magic and everything.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Zidane won 13 major trophies for club and country, including the 1998 FIFA World Cup and 2001-2002 UEFA Champions League, during a 17-year-long senior career.<\/p>\n<p>The 1998 Ballon d\u2019Or winner also featured for Juventus and Real Madrid before retiring from football in 2006.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018I\u2019ve always admired, loved him\u2019 \u2013 Messi names one of greatest players in history<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"wpematico_credit\"><small>Powered by WPeMatico<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inter Miami captain, Lionel Messi has named Real Madrid legend Zinedine Zidane as one of the greatest players in history.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1540,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2634,15,160],"tags":[1359,3091,8,3093,3092,234,3090,3089,2638,351,180,1621,1032,201],"class_list":["post-1539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-messi","category-news","category-sport","tag-ive","tag-admired","tag-akwa-ibom","tag-always","tag-greatest","tag-him","tag-history","tag-loved","tag-messi","tag-names","tag-news","tag-one","tag-players","tag-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1539\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}