{"id":77151,"date":"2026-08-08T11:54:58","date_gmt":"2026-08-08T16:54:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/08\/jorge-messi-father-and-agent-of-argentina-great-dies-aged-68\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T11:54:58","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T16:54:58","slug":"jorge-messi-father-and-agent-of-argentina-great-dies-aged-68","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/08\/jorge-messi-father-and-agent-of-argentina-great-dies-aged-68\/","title":{"rendered":"Jorge Messi, father and agent of Argentina great, dies aged 68"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Messi family report death at medical clinic in Rosario<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Inter Miami are due to play Monterrey on Saturday night<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Lionel Messi\u2019s father and agent, Jorge, has died aged 68 at a medical clinic in the \u2060Argentinian city of \u2060Rosario after \u200ba long illness, the family have announced. Jorge Messi spent his final months \u2060alternating between a medical centre in Rosario and his home, accompanied by his wife, Celia, and his \u2060children Rodrigo, Mat\u00edas and Mar\u00eda Sol.<\/p>\n<p>Lionel Messi \u200bspent time with his \u200cfather after the World \u200cCup before rejoining his club, Inter Miami, for whom he \u200creturned to action a week ago. Inter Miami are due to play Monterrey on Saturday at home in the 2026 Leagues Cup, but the MLS club have yet to announce whether he will feature.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/2026\/aug\/08\/jorge-messi-dies-father-agent-lionel-messi-argentina-inter-miami\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Messi family report death at medical clinic in Rosario Inter Miami are due to play Monterrey on Saturday night Lionel Messi\u2019s father and agent, Jorge, has died aged 68 at a medical clinic in the \u2060Argentinian city of \u2060Rosario after \u200ba long illness, the family have announced. Jorge Messi spent his final months \u2060alternating between &#8230; <a title=\"Jorge Messi, father and agent of Argentina great, dies aged 68\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/08\/jorge-messi-father-and-agent-of-argentina-great-dies-aged-68\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Jorge Messi, father and agent of Argentina great, dies aged 68\">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_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77151","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\/77151","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=77151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77151\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}