{"id":4473,"date":"2017-06-11T16:50:19","date_gmt":"2017-06-11T07:50:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/?p=4473"},"modified":"2017-06-11T16:50:19","modified_gmt":"2017-06-11T07:50:19","slug":"lionel-messi-gonzalo-higuain-miss-singapore-friendly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/2017\/06\/11\/lionel-messi-gonzalo-higuain-miss-singapore-friendly\/","title":{"rendered":"Lionel Messi and Gonzalo Higuain to miss Singapore friendly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Argentine international footballers Lionel Messi, Gonzalo Higuain, and Nicolas Otamendi will not be playing in the friendly against <a href=\"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/2017\/06\/04\/singapore-confident-friendly-match-argentina\/\">Singapore <\/a>next Tuesday for &#8220;personal reasons&#8221;, organizers UNICESS confirmed on late Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, Argentina football team have landed at Singapore&#8217;s Changi Airport with Lionel Messi in town after the 1-0 win in the friendly match against Brazil in Australia on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.todayonline.com\/sports\/football\/lionel-messi-and-now-gonzalo-higuain-miss-singapore-game\">Today Online<\/a>, Messi arrived together with Albicelestes team in Singapore but then departed for the airport again a few hours later, where he is expected to fly back to Barcelona.<\/p>\n<p>Messi and defender Otamendi were earlier reported to be missing the game, but organizers in Singapore had been reluctant to confirm the news, as stated by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.supersport.com\/Football\/south-america\/news\/170610\/Messi_to_skip_Singapore_friendly\">Supersports.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Apart from those 3 players, the star-studded squad of Coach Jorge Sampaoli, with Manchester United&#8217;s Sergio Romero, Paris Saint Germain&#8217;s Angel Di Maria and Juventus striker Paulo Dybala, all set to start against The Lions.<\/p>\n<p>The friendly was organized to celebrate the Football Association of Singapore&#8217;s 125th anniversary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Argentine international footballers Lionel Messi, Gonzalo Higuain, and Nicolas Otamendi will not be playing in the friendly against Singapore next Tuesday for &#8220;personal reasons&#8221;, organizers UNICESS confirmed on late Saturday night. Currently, Argentina football team have landed at Singapore&#8217;s Changi Airport with Lionel Messi in town after the 1-0 win in the friendly match against Brazil in Australia on Friday. According to Today Online, Messi arrived together with Albicelestes team in Singapore but then departed for the airport again a few hours later, where he is expected to fly back to Barcelona. Messi and defender Otamendi were earlier reported to be missing the game, but organizers in Singapore had been &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/2017\/06\/11\/lionel-messi-gonzalo-higuain-miss-singapore-friendly\/\" class=\"tribe-more-link\">Continue reading &#8220;Lionel Messi and Gonzalo Higuain to miss Singapore friendly&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":90,"featured_media":4475,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[855,26],"tags":[302,204,630,593,108],"class_list":["post-4473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rest-of-sea","category-southeast-asia","tag-argentina","tag-featured","tag-jorge-sampaoli","tag-lionel-messi","tag-singapore"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/90"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4473\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}