{"id":36253,"date":"2025-03-17T20:03:42","date_gmt":"2025-03-17T20:03:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/17\/lionel-messi-to-miss-argentinas-world-cup-qualifiers-v-brazil-and-uruguay\/"},"modified":"2025-03-17T20:03:42","modified_gmt":"2025-03-17T20:03:42","slug":"lionel-messi-to-miss-argentinas-world-cup-qualifiers-v-brazil-and-uruguay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/17\/lionel-messi-to-miss-argentinas-world-cup-qualifiers-v-brazil-and-uruguay\/","title":{"rendered":"Lionel Messi to miss Argentina\u2019s World Cup qualifiers v Brazil and Uruguay"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>The Inter Miami star reportedly has a thigh injury<\/li>\n<li>Garnacho, Etcheverri also left off final squad<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Lionel Messi will miss Argentina\u2019s upcoming World Cup qualifiers against Uruguay and Brazil due to an apparent muscle injury. The 37-year-old was not included in the 25-man squad announced on Monday by coach Lionel Scaloni.<\/p>\n<p>Argentinian media reported Messi suffered a sore left thigh on Sunday during Inter Miami\u2019s 2-1 victory over Atlanta United. However, the Argentinian Football Association did not disclose the reason for his absence.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/2025\/mar\/17\/lionel-messi-argentina-squad-brazil-uruguay-world-cup-qualifying\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Inter Miami star reportedly has a thigh injury Garnacho, Etcheverri also left off final squad Lionel Messi will miss Argentina\u2019s upcoming World Cup qualifiers against Uruguay and Brazil due to an apparent muscle injury. The 37-year-old was not included in the 25-man squad announced on Monday by coach Lionel Scaloni. Argentinian media reported Messi &#8230; <a title=\"Lionel Messi to miss Argentina\u2019s World Cup qualifiers v Brazil and Uruguay\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/17\/lionel-messi-to-miss-argentinas-world-cup-qualifiers-v-brazil-and-uruguay\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Lionel Messi to miss Argentina\u2019s World Cup qualifiers v Brazil and Uruguay\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36253\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}