{"id":435760,"date":"2022-12-08T23:00:07","date_gmt":"2022-12-08T23:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/?p=435760"},"modified":"2022-12-09T06:03:45","modified_gmt":"2022-12-09T06:03:45","slug":"messi-is-liberated-jorge-valdano-on-argentina-politics-and-his-goal-in-86","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/messi-is-liberated-jorge-valdano-on-argentina-politics-and-his-goal-in-86","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Messi is liberated\u2019: Jorge Valdano on Argentina, politics and his goal in \u201886"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;Against Australia, it was like the essence of his 1,000 games&#8217;: Lionel Messi skips away from Aaron Mooy during Argentina&#8217;s last-16 victory.Jorge Valdano should have been at the Monumental; instead he was standing alone in a bar. He can still remember its name: Rinc&#243;n de la Victoria. Just him and a group of Dutch fans looking at the screen, wondering what might have been. Mention Argentina and the Netherlands, who face each other on Friday night, and that&#8217;s the moment that comes to his mind. The 1978 final. Ticker tape, Mario Kempes and, clearest of all, Rob Rensenbrink hitting the post. &#8220;I watched with &#8216;long teeth&#8217;, envy,&#8221; he admits.He was missing out on Argentina winning their first World Cup; he couldn&#8217;t know it then, but he wouldn&#8217;t miss out on the second. Thirty-six years on from Mexico 86, Valdano would love a third, a spectator again but in the stadium, not some bar. &#8220;I asked [the coach C&#233;sar Luis] Menotti.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jorge Valdano should have been at the Monumental; instead he was standing alone in a bar. He can still remember its name: Rinc&#243;n de la Victoria. Just him and a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[417,1,140],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-435760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-champions-league","category-news","category-soccer"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=435760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435760\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=435760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=435760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=435760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}