{"id":11486,"date":"2022-04-10T14:59:39","date_gmt":"2022-04-10T09:29:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=212101"},"modified":"2022-04-10T14:59:39","modified_gmt":"2022-04-10T09:29:39","slug":"levante-were-unfortunate-receivers-of-andres-iniestas-debut-goal-for-fc-barcelona","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/football\/levante-were-unfortunate-receivers-of-andres-iniestas-debut-goal-for-fc-barcelona\/","title":{"rendered":"Levante were unfortunate receivers of Andr\u00e9s Iniesta\u2019s debut goal for FC Barcelona"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The midfield maestro Andr\u00e9s Iniesta received his first outing in the Champions League\u2019s tight triumph against Brugge. For all Barcelona lovers, October 29 is indeed an occasion to cherish as it was the first time Andres Iniesta donned the distinctive Blaugrana kit. Iniesta performed the whole 90 minutes in the 1-0 Champions League victory over Brugge. In total, the 18-year-old registered 9 first-team starts in his debut season in 2002-2003, providing one assist. After then, history was created.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">In a Copa del Rey contest in January 2004, a player who eventually went on to be established as a club icon \u2013 and who will be significantly missed \u2013 scored his first goal. Reminding you of his debut official goal for the club, which he struck on this day in 2004.\u00a0<\/span>His maiden goal happened in the third minute of a Copa del Rey contest over Levante in January 2004, whereby the squad coached by Frank Rijkaard at the time ended up winning 3-1, alongside Javier Saviola and Ronaldinho hitting the additional two goals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Iniesta opened the game for the first 40 minutes until being substituted by Gerard L\u00f3pez in a squad that also contained Victor Vald\u00e9s, Carles Puyol, and Xavi Hernandez. Since then, Bar\u00e7a has faced Levante 17 times and has never lost. The team\u2019s 22-match unbeaten record in all tournaments is the greatest vs any club in the league.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Ever since occasion at the Camp Nou, Iniesta has had an epic voyage. He\u2019s amassed an unprecedented 671 outings, producing 52 goals and claiming 32 major titles (a record he shares with Leo Messi). At the age of 12, the 33-year-old midfielder joined the Club in September 1996. With 30 trophies, Iniesta and Leo Messi are tied for the most in Bar\u00e7a history. Iniesta was named the team\u2019s first captain in 2015, and he is among the Club\u2019s most renowned faces. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andr\u00e9s Iniesta is an FC Barcelona legend and is regarded as one of the best midfielders in the history of football. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":266,"featured_media":33956,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[614,2236,238,2770,487,280,2872],"class_list":["post-11486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football","tag-andres-iniesta","tag-copa-del-rey","tag-fc-barcelona","tag-levante","tag-lionel-messi","tag-xavi","tag-xavi-hernandez"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11486","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\/266"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11486\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}