{"id":1892655,"date":"2026-07-19T07:13:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-19T11:13:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1892655"},"modified":"2026-07-19T07:23:56","modified_gmt":"2026-07-19T11:23:56","slug":"messi-has-work-to-catch-mbappe-for-the-golden-boot-a-3rd-golden-ball-is-in-reach-in-world-cup-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1892655","title":{"rendered":"Messi has work to catch Mbapp\u00e9 for the Golden Boot. A 3rd Golden Ball is in reach in World Cup final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lionel Messi has quite a climb to catch Kylian Mbapp\u00e9 for the Golden Boot. The Argentina superstar has never been the leading scorer at the World Cup, and he\u2019s now two behind Mbapp\u00e9 after the France striker upped his total to 10 goals in a wild third-place game. Even if Messi can\u2019t get there, a r&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wral.com\/news\/ap\/2036d-messi-has-work-to-catch-mbapp-for-the-golden-boot-a-3rd-golden-ball-is-in-reach-in-world-cup-final\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click here to read the full article<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lionel Messi has quite a climb to catch Kylian Mbapp\u00e9 for the Golden Boot. The Argentina superstar has never been the leading scorer at the World&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":1892656,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1892655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured-stories","wpcat-79-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1892655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1892655"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1892655\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1892657,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1892655\/revisions\/1892657"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1892656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1892655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1892655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1892655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}