{"id":232411,"date":"2025-07-14T11:10:30","date_gmt":"2025-07-14T11:10:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abianewscentral.com.ng\/trump-snubs-messi-ronaldo-names-greatest-footballer-of-all-time\/"},"modified":"2025-07-14T11:10:30","modified_gmt":"2025-07-14T11:10:30","slug":"trump-snubs-messi-ronaldo-names-greatest-footballer-of-all-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/trump-snubs-messi-ronaldo-names-greatest-footballer-of-all-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump snubs Messi, Ronaldo, names greatest footballer of all time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Trump snubs Messi, Ronaldo, names greatest footballer of all time<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">\n<p>US President, Donald Trump, has snubbed the iconic duo of Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo, as he weighed in on the debate over the greatest footballer of all time.<\/p>\n<p>According to Trump, Pele is the best player to ever grace the game.<\/p>\n<p>The American president attended Sunday\u2019s Club World Cup final between Paris Saint-Germain and Chelsea in New Jersey.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking with DAZN, Trump reminisced about Pel\u00e9\u2019s time in the US, when he played for the New York Cosmos from 1975 until he retired in 1977.<\/p>\n<p>He said, \u201cMany years ago, when I was young, they brought a player named Pele to play, and he played for a team called the Cosmos.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe was the inspiration we had, and this place was packed. It was an earlier version of this stadium, but right here in the Meadowlands, and it was Pele.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd I would, I\u2019d say, probably go old-fashioned. That\u2019s like saying Babe Ruth, but I would say Pele was so great.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async defer crossorigin=\"anonymous\" src=\"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&amp;version=v9.0&amp;appId=420332301344305\" nonce=\"sm97MhBO\" type=\"pmdelayedscript\" data-cfasync=\"false\" data-no-optimize=\"1\" data-no-defer=\"1\" data-no-minify=\"1\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/>messi, ronaldo, Trump,<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/dailypost.ng\/2025\/07\/14\/trump-snubs-messi-ronaldo-names-greatest-footballer-of-all-time\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump snubs Messi, Ronaldo, names greatest footballer of all time US President, Donald Trump, has snubbed the iconic duo of Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo, as he weighed in on the debate over the greatest footballer of all time. According to Trump, Pele is the best player to ever grace the game. The American president [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":232412,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[602,603,604],"class_list":["post-232411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-messi","tag-ronaldo","tag-trump"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=232411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232411\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}