UNITED STATES. Lionel Messi highlighted the good form of the Argentine national team after the 2-0 victory over Austria and assured that, although Spain is one of the great favorites for the 2026 World Cup, the Albiceleste is also going through a great level.<\/p>n”\n\n“n
You might be interested in:<\/a><\/strong> Messi leads Argentina and advances to the round of 32 in the 2026 World Cup<\/a><\/p>n”\n\n“n After scoring the two winning goals in Arlington, Messi was asked about a possible matchup against Spain and responded calmly:<\/p>n”\n\n“n \u201cThe Spanish national team has been proving for a long time that it is one of the favorites, it has important players, but we will face them when we have to face them. The truth is that we are also doing well\u201d.<\/p>n<\/blockquote>n”\n\n“n The Argentine captain also highlighted his team’s competitiveness in every match of the 2026 FIFA World Cup.<\/p>n”\n\n“n \u201cWe compete in every match regardless of the opponent, even though Spain is one of the favorites\u201d.<\/p>n<\/blockquote>n”\n\n“n The statements come after another historic performance by Messi, who with his brace against Austria became the top scorer in World Cup history with 18 goals.<\/p>n”\n\n“n The national team led by Lionel Scaloni has added two consecutive victories in the group stage and is very close to officially securing its qualification for the round of 32, consolidating itself as one of the title contenders alongside teams like Spain and France. <\/p>n”","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" “n n” “n UNITED STATES. Lionel Messi highlighted the good form of the Argentine national team after the 2-0 victory over Austria and assured that, although Spain is one of the great favorites for the 2026 World Cup, the Albiceleste is also going through a great level. n” “n You might be interested in: Messi […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":512092,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[40943],"tags":[43601,44182,40231,43648,17478,43735],"class_list":["post-512091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-breakingnews","tag-cover","tag-dominican-republic","tag-fifa-world-cup","tag-lionel-messi","tag-thenewspaperoftruth"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phj1q1-29dx","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/06\/Leo_Messi_Mundial_Espana.jpeg","dum_api":{"author_name":"EFE","author_image":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/1200px-EFE_logo.svg-96x96.png","categories_name":["Football"],"featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cdn.deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/06\/Leo_Messi_Mundial_Espana.jpeg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=512091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512091\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/512092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=512091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=512091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=512091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}n
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