{"id":159706,"date":"2026-02-21T10:40:34","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T10:40:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/?p=159706"},"modified":"2026-02-21T10:40:34","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T10:40:34","slug":"mls-harder-than-champions-league-seriously-%f0%9f%98%b1%f0%9f%a4%af","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/?p=159706","title":{"rendered":"MLS Harder Than Champions League? Seriously? \ud83d\ude31\ud83e\udd2f"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/f3RgdraoZdQ?rel=0&#038;modestbranding=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>People say this guy knows nothing about football except protecting Lionel Messi. That\u2019s what a lot of critics claim. Like, what does a \u201cbodyguard\u201d even know about tactics?<\/p>\n<p>But everyone knows Rodrigo de Paul is super close to Messi. Their friendship is so tight that fans constantly turn it into memes. His girlfriend, Tini, once shared a funny story. After winning the World Cup, De Paul came home drunk from celebrating non-stop. When Tini said, \u201cI love you,\u201d he replied, \u201cI love you too, Messi.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Now he\u2019s saying MLS is harder to win than the Champions League\u2026 even though he\u2019s never actually won the UCL.<br \/>\n.<br \/>\n.<br \/>\n#football #footballnews #soccer #barcelonafootball #realmadrid #ronaldo<br \/>\n#ucl #championsleague #premierleague #laliga #bundesliga #seriea<br \/>\n#worldcup #fifaworldcup #transfernews #footballhighlights<br \/>\n#footballdaily #footballupdates #footballfans #sportsnews<br \/>\n#epl #ligue1 #fifa #uefa #goal #footballanalysis<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=f3RgdraoZdQ\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People say this guy knows nothing about football except protecting Lionel Messi. That\u2019s what a lot of critics claim. Like, what does a \u201cbodyguard\u201d even know about tactics? But everyone&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10448,"featured_media":159707,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-159706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-soccer-world-wide"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10448"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=159706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159706\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/159707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=159706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=159706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=159706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}