{"id":103935,"date":"2021-07-11T07:30:50","date_gmt":"2021-07-11T11:30:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=103935"},"modified":"2021-07-11T05:39:44","modified_gmt":"2021-07-11T09:39:44","slug":"espn-fc-argentinas-team-effort-over-brazil-leads-lionel-messi-to-copa-america-glory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=103935","title":{"rendered":"(ESPN FC) Argentina&#8217;s team effort over Brazil leads Lionel Messi to Copa America glory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the end, Brazil&#8217;s dependence on Neymar was greater than Argentina&#8217;s on Lionel Messi. Argentina&#8217;s 12th goal of the tournament was the first and only one not to involve Messi &#8212; and it was enough to bring Messi the first senior title of his international career, as well as Argentina&#8217;s first since 1993.<\/p>\n<p>The 1-0 victory in the Copa America final on Saturday was the fruit of Argentina coach Lionel Scaloni&#8217;s willingness to change a winning team &#8212; or at least one that had come through a semifinal after a penalty shootout. He changed five of the side &#8212; half of the outfield contingent &#8212; from the lineup of Tuesday&#8217;s game against Colombia. One was routine, with centre-back Cristian Romero returning after injury. Both full-backs were changed; Scaloni clearly wanting fresh legs down the flanks.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/soccer\/copa-america\/story\/4430329\/argentinas-team-effort-over-brazil-led-lionel-messi-to-copa-america-glory\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">GOOD MORNING!!!  <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/JIPFe8gMbO\">pic.twitter.com\/JIPFe8gMbO<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash;    (@TheEuropeanLad) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheEuropeanLad\/status\/1414150752499605509?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 11, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the end, Brazil&#8217;s dependence on Neymar was greater than Argentina&#8217;s on Lionel Messi. Argentina&#8217;s 12th goal of the tournament was the first and only one not to involve Messi &#8212; and it was enough to bring Messi the first<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=103935\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[607,128],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-argentina","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=103935"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103935\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":103937,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103935\/revisions\/103937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=103935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=103935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=103935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}