{"id":41891,"date":"2024-07-15T09:05:14","date_gmt":"2024-07-15T09:05:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/copa-america-2024-messi-becomes-player-with-most-trophies-in-football-history\/"},"modified":"2024-07-15T09:05:14","modified_gmt":"2024-07-15T09:05:14","slug":"copa-america-2024-messi-becomes-player-with-most-trophies-in-football-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/copa-america-2024-messi-becomes-player-with-most-trophies-in-football-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Copa America 2024: Messi becomes player with most trophies in football history"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Argentina captain, Lionel Messi, has become the player with the most trophies in football history.<\/p>\n<p>Messi played for 60 minutes as his country beat Colombia 1-0 in the final of the 2024 Copa America.<\/p>\n<p>This is the 45th piece of silverware the 37-year-old has won in his career.<\/p>\n<p>Messi breaks the record that was initially held by ex-Barcelona teammate Dani Alves (44).<\/p>\n<p>Messi won 35 of his club career titles at Barcelona and six trophies with Argentina, including Copa America 2021 and Copa America 2024.<\/p>\n<p>The eight-time Ballon d\u2019Or winner also won the Olympic gold medal at Beijing 2008.<\/p>\n<p>After joining PSG in 2021, Messi added three trophies to his cabinet \u2013 Ligue 1 (2021-22), (2022-23) and Trophee des Champions (2022).<\/p>\n<p>He also won the 2022 FIFA World Cup with Argentina and the Leagues Cup 2023 trophy with Inter Miami.<\/p>\n<p>Copa America 2024: Messi becomes player with most trophies in football history<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Argentina captain, Lionel Messi, has become the player with the most trophies in football history. Messi played for 60 minutes&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41892,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18132,2634,15,160],"tags":[1279,7261,3063,7262,410,3090,2638,2098,180,353,201,20954,364],"class_list":["post-41891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-copa-america-2024","category-messi","category-news","category-sport","tag-1279","tag-america","tag-becomes","tag-copa","tag-football","tag-history","tag-messi","tag-most","tag-news","tag-player","tag-sport","tag-trophies","tag-with"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41891","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=41891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41891\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}