{"id":2646,"date":"2025-12-11T11:10:59","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T11:10:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=2646"},"modified":"2025-12-11T11:10:59","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T11:10:59","slug":"lionel-messi-to-unveil-70ft-statue-of-himself-on-goat-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=2646","title":{"rendered":"Lionel Messi to unveil 70ft statue of himself on &#8216;GOAT&#8217; tour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Lionel Messi? Cristiano Ronaldo? Pele? Diego Maradona?<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The debate over football&#8217;s greatest player of all time (GOAT) is one that has rumbled across generations &#8211; but India has cast its vote.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Fresh from leading <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/live\/c3r78p3zn3wt\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">Inter Miami to a historic MLS Cup<\/a>, Messi is heading to India for a three-day &#8216;GOAT Tour&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Accompanied by club-mates Luis Suarez and Rodrigo de Paul, the eight-time Ballon d&#8217;Or winner will unveil a statue of himself in Kolkata on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It has been assembled over the course of 27 days by a 45-strong crew and stands at a mammoth 70ft.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The tour begins in Kolkata at 10:30am local time (05:00 GMT) on Saturday, before heading to Hyderabad, Mumbai and Delhi.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/articles\/c2k4p7xjn2zo?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lionel Messi? Cristiano Ronald&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2647,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[251],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2646"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2646\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}