{"id":153,"date":"2019-03-18T08:30:17","date_gmt":"2019-03-18T12:30:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/marchisreadingmonth\/?p=153"},"modified":"2019-03-14T16:05:43","modified_gmt":"2019-03-14T20:05:43","slug":"march-18-lionel-messi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/marchisreadingmonth\/2019\/03\/18\/march-18-lionel-messi\/","title":{"rendered":"March 18 Lionel Messi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Lionel <\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Messi is a professional soccer player who was named \u201c world player\u201d of the year 5 times from 2009 to 2012, and then in 2015. Messi is from Argentina, South America. \u00a0He started playing soccer at the age of 8, and by the age of 13 years old he was living in Spain. He was chosen by the prestigious football club of Barcelona (Spain) to play in FC Barcelona.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He is considered the official player and goal scorer in the Spanish <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">La Liga (the country\u2019s highest division of football) and <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">in 2005, he won the Champions League title of Europe. He scored 38 goals in 51 matches during one season and broke the career scoring records for play in both the Champions League(with 72 goals) and La Liga (with 253 goals).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He led Argentina to three consecutive finals: the<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">2014 World Cup, for which he won the Golden<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ball, and the<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/2015_Copa_Am%C3%A9rica\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">2015<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Copa_Am%C3%A9rica_Centenario\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">2016 Copas A<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">merica. After announcing his international retirement in 2016, he reversed his decision and led his country to qualification for the<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">2018 World Cup. His main sponsor since 2006 is the sportswear company Adidas then, in 2008, he had a long-running signature collection of <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Adidas F50 boots, and in 2015, he became the first football player to receive his own sub-brand of Adidas boots, the Adidas Messi.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-154 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/marchisreadingmonth\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2981\/2019\/03\/lionel-messi-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"image of Messi wearing a jersey and holding his arms up as if he were cheering\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/marchisreadingmonth\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2981\/2019\/03\/lionel-messi-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/marchisreadingmonth\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2981\/2019\/03\/lionel-messi-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/marchisreadingmonth\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2981\/2019\/03\/lionel-messi-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/marchisreadingmonth\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2981\/2019\/03\/lionel-messi.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lionel Messi is a professional soccer player who was named \u201c world player\u201d of the year 5 times from 2009 to 2012, and then in 2015. Messi is from Argentina, South America. \u00a0He started playing soccer at the age of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/marchisreadingmonth\/2019\/03\/18\/march-18-lionel-messi\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1375,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/marchisreadingmonth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/marchisreadingmonth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/marchisreadingmonth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/marchisreadingmonth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1375"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/marchisreadingmonth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/marchisreadingmonth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/marchisreadingmonth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/marchisreadingmonth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/marchisreadingmonth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}