{"id":51451,"date":"2024-10-10T08:44:53","date_gmt":"2024-10-10T08:44:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=51451"},"modified":"2024-10-10T08:48:16","modified_gmt":"2024-10-10T08:48:16","slug":"cruyff-yamal-not-on-same-level-with-messi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2024\/10\/10\/cruyff-yamal-not-on-same-level-with-messi\/","title":{"rendered":"Cruyff: Yamal Not On Same Level With Messi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former Barcelona sports chief Jordi Cruyff believes Lamine Yamal is not in the same level with Lionel Messi.<\/p>\n<p>Cruyff stated that the Spanish international still has a long career ahead of him.<br \/>\n\u201cHe\u2019s a different player, with a different talent, with a lot of personality for his age.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFrom day one, he hasn\u2019t been afraid of \u2018give me the ball, I\u2019ll make my move\u2019 and the truth is that if injuries don\u2019t affect him, he\u2019s obviously a player who will mark an era, but to say that he\u2019s going to be a Messi\u2026 We\u2019ll know when he\u2019s 30.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On Andr\u00e9s Iniesta, who retired this week, Cruyff also said: \u201cHe is a very elegant person, it is no coincidence that he is one of the few footballers who has received a standing ovation from opposing fans in every stadium he has stepped into, even if he has been substituted. For me, that is a sign that people appreciate the person of Andr\u00e9s Iniesta.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Barcelona sports chief Jordi Cruyff believes Lamine Yamal is not in the same level with Lionel Messi. Cruyff stated that the Spanish international still has a long career ahead of him. \u201cHe\u2019s a different player, with a different talent, with a lot of personality for his age. \u201cFrom day one, he hasn\u2019t been afraid [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":51452,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[175],"tags":[374,1171],"class_list":["post-51451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-messi","tag-yamal"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51451","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=51451"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51451\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51463,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51451\/revisions\/51463"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}