{"id":73974,"date":"2026-05-24T21:10:17","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T02:10:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/24\/lionel-messi-exits-final-miami-game-before-world-cup-with-possible-injury\/"},"modified":"2026-05-24T21:10:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T02:10:17","slug":"lionel-messi-exits-final-miami-game-before-world-cup-with-possible-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/24\/lionel-messi-exits-final-miami-game-before-world-cup-with-possible-injury\/","title":{"rendered":"Lionel Messi exits final Miami game before World Cup with possible injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Messi exited Miami\u2019s 6-4 win in the 73rd minute<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Argentina\u2019s World Cup begins in 23 days v Algeria<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Lionel Messi exited Inter Miami\u2019s wild 6-4 win against the Philadelphia Union early on Sunday night, a worrying sight for the Argentina side he captains in his last game before he joins up with the national team for the 2026 World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>Messi\u2019s actions before being taken off did not appear to bother him and he was not limping when he came off the field. Amid a typical South Florida deluge, he had taken a free kick attempt in the 68th minute, and went on a dribbling run with an attempted through ball for an offside Ian Fray not long afterward with no apparent issue.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/2026\/may\/24\/lionel-messi-injury-inter-miami-argentina-world-cup-2026\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Messi exited Miami\u2019s 6-4 win in the 73rd minute Argentina\u2019s World Cup begins in 23 days v Algeria Lionel Messi exited Inter Miami\u2019s wild 6-4 win against the Philadelphia Union early on Sunday night, a worrying sight for the Argentina side he captains in his last game before he joins up with the national team &#8230; <a title=\"Lionel Messi exits final Miami game before World Cup with possible injury\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/24\/lionel-messi-exits-final-miami-game-before-world-cup-with-possible-injury\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Lionel Messi exits final Miami game before World Cup with possible injury\">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-73974","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\/73974","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=73974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73974\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}