{"id":77316,"date":"2026-08-12T09:56:37","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T14:56:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/12\/lionel-messi-has-quite-a-few-doubts-about-football-future-after-death-of-his-father\/"},"modified":"2026-08-12T09:56:37","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T14:56:37","slug":"lionel-messi-has-quite-a-few-doubts-about-football-future-after-death-of-his-father","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/12\/lionel-messi-has-quite-a-few-doubts-about-football-future-after-death-of-his-father\/","title":{"rendered":"Lionel Messi has \u2018quite a few doubts\u2019 about football future after death of his father"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Messi\u2019s father, \u2060Jorge, died last week at age of 68<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Argentinian suggests he may not play on much longer<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Lionel Messi said on Wednesday he is having doubts about continuing his career following the death of his father last week.<\/p>\n<p>Messi\u2019s father, \u2060Jorge, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/2026\/aug\/08\/jorge-messi-dies-father-agent-lionel-messi-argentina-inter-miami\">died last week aged 68<\/a> at a medical clinic in the Argentinian city of Rosario after a long illness.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/2026\/aug\/12\/lionel-messi-doubts-football-future-death-of-his-father-jorge\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Messi\u2019s father, \u2060Jorge, died last week at age of 68 Argentinian suggests he may not play on much longer Lionel Messi said on Wednesday he is having doubts about continuing his career following the death of his father last week. Messi\u2019s father, \u2060Jorge, died last week aged 68 at a medical clinic in the Argentinian &#8230; <a title=\"Lionel Messi has \u2018quite a few doubts\u2019 about football future after death of his father\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/12\/lionel-messi-has-quite-a-few-doubts-about-football-future-after-death-of-his-father\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Lionel Messi has \u2018quite a few doubts\u2019 about football future after death of his father\">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-77316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77316","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=77316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77316\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}