{"id":67478,"date":"2026-02-27T00:55:01","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T05:55:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/27\/lionel-messi-tackled-by-pitch-invader-in-chaotic-friendly-in-puerto-rico\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T00:55:01","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T05:55:01","slug":"lionel-messi-tackled-by-pitch-invader-in-chaotic-friendly-in-puerto-rico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/27\/lionel-messi-tackled-by-pitch-invader-in-chaotic-friendly-in-puerto-rico\/","title":{"rendered":"Lionel Messi tackled by pitch invader in chaotic friendly in Puerto Rico"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Preseason game was rescheduled due to a Messi injury<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Messi entered in second half and scored winning PK<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Inter Miami visits Orlando City in MLS play on Sunday<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Lionel Messi was briefly tackled to the ground by a pitch invader and a security guard in a midweek, early-season friendly on Thursday evening in Bayam\u00f3n, Puerto Rico.<\/p>\n<p>Inter Miami were fulfilling a make-up date for a postponed friendly against Ecuadorian club Independiente del Valle, originally slated for 13 February. The initial date was scrapped after Messi had felt discomfort in his hamstring during the preceding tune-up exhibition at Ecuadorian side Barcelona SC. Inter Miami cited coordination with \u201cthe event promoter and the government of Puerto Rico\u201d in determining the makeup date of 26 February \u2013 five days after Miami opened the 2026 MLS season in Los Angeles, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/2026\/feb\/23\/lafc-inter-miami-mls-opening-weekend-joao-klauss-la-galaxy-dc-united-tai-baribo\">losing 3-0 to Son Heung-min\u2019s LAFC<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/2026\/feb\/26\/lionel-messi-tackled-inter-miami-friendly-independiente-del-valle-puerto-rico\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Preseason game was rescheduled due to a Messi injury Messi entered in second half and scored winning PK Inter Miami visits Orlando City in MLS play on Sunday Lionel Messi was briefly tackled to the ground by a pitch invader and a security guard in a midweek, early-season friendly on Thursday evening in Bayam\u00f3n, Puerto &#8230; <a title=\"Lionel Messi tackled by pitch invader in chaotic friendly in Puerto Rico\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/27\/lionel-messi-tackled-by-pitch-invader-in-chaotic-friendly-in-puerto-rico\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Lionel Messi tackled by pitch invader in chaotic friendly in Puerto Rico\">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-67478","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\/67478","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=67478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67478\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}