{"id":1132,"date":"2022-01-02T20:36:32","date_gmt":"2022-01-02T14:51:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/asiafirstdaily.com\/?p=1132"},"modified":"2022-01-05T14:59:20","modified_gmt":"2022-01-05T09:14:20","slug":"lionel-messi-tests-positive-for-covid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiafirstdaily.com\/?p=1132","title":{"rendered":"Lionel Messi tests positive for Covid"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>PARIS, Jan 2, 2022 (AFP) &#8211; <\/strong>Lionel Messi has tested positive for Covid-19 and has entered self-isolation, his club Paris Saint-Germain announced on Sunday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The seven-time Ballon d&#8217;Or winner was one of four PSG players to test positive for the virus ahead of a French Cup match against Vannes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Argentinian star has endured a difficult start to life in the French capital since an emotional exit from Barcelona last summer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Messi has scored only one goal in 11 league appearances for PSG, although he has netted five times in the Champions League.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He will miss Monday&#8217;s cup tie and will likely also be sidelined for PSG&#8217;s first Ligue 1 match since the winter break, at Lyon next Sunday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The other players to test positive were full-back Juan Bernat, back-up goalkeeper Sergio Rico and teenage midfielder Nathan Bitumazala.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;They are currently respecting isolation and are subject to the appropriate health protocols,&#8221; PSG said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The number of Covid cases in France has topped 200,000 a day this week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PARIS, Jan 2, 2022 (AFP) &#8211; Lionel Messi has tested positive for Covid-19 and has entered self-isolation, his club Paris Saint-Germain announced on Sunday. The seven-time Ballon d&#8217;Or winner was one of four PSG players to test positive for the virus ahead of a French Cup match against Vannes. The Argentinian star has endured a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1134,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,12],"tags":[763,520,762,761,760],"class_list":["post-1132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-sport","tag-ballon-dor","tag-covid-19-2","tag-lionel-messi","tag-paris-saint-germain-club","tag-self-isolation"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/asiafirstdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/lionel-messi-argentina-national-football.jpg?fit=1024%2C576&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiafirstdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiafirstdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiafirstdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiafirstdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiafirstdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/asiafirstdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1132\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiafirstdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiafirstdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiafirstdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiafirstdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}