{"id":38392,"date":"2024-07-11T08:28:17","date_gmt":"2024-07-11T08:28:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=38392"},"modified":"2024-07-11T08:28:17","modified_gmt":"2024-07-11T08:28:17","slug":"copa-america-james-rodriguez-equals-peles-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2024\/07\/11\/copa-america-james-rodriguez-equals-peles-record\/","title":{"rendered":"Copa America: James Rodriguez Equals Pele\u2019s Record"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>James Rodriguez equaled late Pele\u2019s record after helping Colombia beat Uruguay 1-0 and reach the 2024 Copa America final in the early hours of Thursday morning.<\/p>\n<p>Rodriguez provided the assist for Colombia\u2019s goal scored by Jefferson Lerma in the 39th minute.<br \/>\nWith the assist Rodriguez became the first South American player to record six assists in a major tournament since Pel\u00e9 did it for Brazil at the 1970 World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>Colombia advanced to their third final in history and it is their first Copa America final since 2001.<br \/>\nHowever, Colombia had to play most part of the game with 10 men after Daniel Mu\u00f1oz received a red card just before halftime.<\/p>\n<p>Colombia will now face Copa America champions Argentina at Hard Rock Stadium in Miami on Sunday.<br \/>\nArgentina secured their place in the final with a 2-0 victory over Canada in the first semifinal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James Rodriguez equaled late Pele\u2019s record after helping Colombia beat Uruguay 1-0 and reach the 2024 Copa America final in the early hours of Thursday morning. Rodriguez provided the assist for Colombia\u2019s goal scored by Jefferson Lerma in the 39th minute. With the assist Rodriguez became the first South American player to record six assists [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":38394,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[175],"tags":[1175],"class_list":["post-38392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-james-rodriguez"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38392"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38392\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38395,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38392\/revisions\/38395"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}