{"id":10951,"date":"2021-10-11T10:33:32","date_gmt":"2021-10-11T05:03:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=158102"},"modified":"2021-10-11T10:33:32","modified_gmt":"2021-10-11T05:03:32","slug":"lionel-messi-commemorated-by-argentina-football-federation-for-becoming-the-highest-goal-scorer-in-conmebol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/football\/lionel-messi-commemorated-by-argentina-football-federation-for-becoming-the-highest-goal-scorer-in-conmebol\/","title":{"rendered":"Lionel Messi commemorated by Argentina Football Federation for becoming the highest goal scorer in CONMEBOL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is very hard to keep Lionel Messi away from personal accolades. The 34-year-old was in the news recently as he was nominated for the Ballon d\u2019Or, and many people are backing him up to win it. The verdict on that will be announced in due time, meanwhile, the little magician has been commemorated by the Football Federation of Argentina, for becoming the highest goal scorer in CONMEBOL history.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Lionel Messi with AFA president Chiqui Tapia as Messi was honored for being the all time South American highest goal scorer. Messi has scored 80 goals for Argentina. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/UXYEW0orFq\">pic.twitter.com\/UXYEW0orFq<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Roy Nemer (@RoyNemer) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RoyNemer\/status\/1447383213811326976?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 11, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>This took place after the Argentine side thrashed their Uruguayan visitors 3 goals to nil to nil, and extended their undefeated streak to 24 games in a row now. There has been a certain kind of revival of Argentina since June 2019, under the management of Lionel Scaloni. It was on view once again as Argentina hosted the 4<sup>th<\/sup> placed Uruguay, in their 10<sup>th<\/sup> game of the group stage. The scoring was opened by Messi in the 38<sup>th<\/sup> minute of the game, while Rodrigo De Paul and Lautaro Martinez sealed the win by the means of their 44<sup>th<\/sup> and 62<sup>nd-<\/sup>minute goals respectively. The Uruguay side despite having the likes of Luis Suarez and Edinson Cavani on their team sheet failed to inflict even a single goal. This title was previously held by Brazilian legend Pele. While on the international rankings Messi has now overtaken Godfrey Chitalu, who had 79 goals too. Cristiano Ronaldo still leads the tally with his 112 goals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With his opening goal in this game, Messi has now taken his tally of international goals to 80 goals. He\u2019s the highest goal scorer in the history of South American football. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":215,"featured_media":33427,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[660,1852,321,1825,2272,2648,1006],"class_list":["post-10951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football","tag-argentina","tag-conmebol","tag-cristiano-ronaldo","tag-lional-messi","tag-lionel-scaloni","tag-pele","tag-uruguay"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/215"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10951\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}