{"id":38656,"date":"2024-06-23T15:04:19","date_gmt":"2024-06-23T15:04:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/he-reminds-me-of-lavezzi-messi-thanks-argentina-midfielder-for-assistance\/"},"modified":"2024-06-23T15:04:19","modified_gmt":"2024-06-23T15:04:19","slug":"he-reminds-me-of-lavezzi-messi-thanks-argentina-midfielder-for-assistance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/he-reminds-me-of-lavezzi-messi-thanks-argentina-midfielder-for-assistance\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018He reminds me of Lavezzi\u2019 \u2013 Messi thanks Argentina midfielder for assistance"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Argentine captain, Lionel Messi has hailed Rodrigo De Paul for helping him bond with his national teammates.<\/p>\n<p>Messi said that De Paul\u2019s personality reminded him of former Paris Saint-Germain winger Ezequiel Lavezzi.<\/p>\n<p>Messi and De Paul are widely known to be best friends.<\/p>\n<p>De Paul, who currently plays for Atletico Madrid, is often seen around the Inter Miami captain at training and while traveling to international matches to represent Argentina.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on the Clank podcast (via Roy Nemer on X), Messi said:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is very difficult to get into the groups, also because of the way I am.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRodrigo [De Paul] helped me a lot. He reminded me a lot of Pocho [Ezequiel Lavezzi].\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2018He reminds me of Lavezzi\u2019 \u2013 Messi thanks Argentina midfielder for assistance<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Argentine captain, Lionel Messi has hailed Rodrigo De Paul for helping him bond with his national teammates. Messi said that&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38657,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2634,15,160],"tags":[2151,8,4419,18958,190,18960,2638,233,180,18242,201,18959],"class_list":["post-38656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-messi","category-news","category-sport","tag-he","tag-akwa-ibom","tag-argentina","tag-assistance","tag-for","tag-lavezzi","tag-messi","tag-midfielder","tag-news","tag-reminds","tag-sport","tag-thanks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38656","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=38656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38656\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}