{"id":2613,"date":"2026-06-11T05:44:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T05:44:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/?p=2613"},"modified":"2026-06-11T05:44:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T05:44:11","slug":"fifa-world-cup-2026-lionel-messi-v-cristiano-ronaldo-how-much-did-their-rivalry-drive-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/?p=2613","title":{"rendered":"Fifa World Cup 2026: Lionel Messi v Cristiano Ronaldo &#8211; how much did their rivalry drive them?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They were two iconic shirt celebrations that came to define a rivalry like no other &#8211; but how much did Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo drive each other?<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Hear from leading journalists on how two of football&#8217;s greatest players reached unprecedented heights.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/programmes\/m002xj2m\" class=\"ssrcss-jbu701-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">Watch Rivals: Messi v Ronaldo now on BBC iPlayer<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sounds\/play\/p0nm90s6\" class=\"ssrcss-jbu701-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">listen to Sporting Giants: Messi v Ronaldo on BBC Sounds.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They were two iconic shirt celebrations that came to define a rivalry like no other &#8211; but how much did&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2614,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2613\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}