{"id":43478,"date":"2026-06-11T05:50:17","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T05:50:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/fifa-world-cup-2026-lionel-messi-v-cristiano-ronaldo-how-much-did-their-rivalry-drive-them\/"},"modified":"2026-06-11T05:50:19","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T05:50:19","slug":"fifa-world-cup-2026-lionel-messi-v-cristiano-ronaldo-how-much-did-their-rivalry-drive-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/fifa-world-cup-2026-lionel-messi-v-cristiano-ronaldo-how-much-did-their-rivalry-drive-them\/","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<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/videos\/c05yj4p5gzgo?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\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 Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo drive each other? Hear from leading journalists on how two of football&#8217;s greatest players reached unprecedented heights. Watch Rivals: Messi v Ronaldo now on BBC iPlayer and listen to Sporting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":43479,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43478"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43478"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43478\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43480,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43478\/revisions\/43480"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}