{"id":32761,"date":"2019-02-21T19:23:02","date_gmt":"2019-02-21T19:23:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=32761"},"modified":"2019-02-21T19:23:02","modified_gmt":"2019-02-21T19:23:02","slug":"its-pele-wenger-recalls-seeing-mbappe-play","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=32761","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;It&#8217;s Pele&#8217; &#8212; Wenger recalls seeing Mbappe play"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\"> (CNN)<\/cite>When Kylian Mbappe scored France&#8217;s final goal last July&#8217;s 4-2 victory over Croatia, he became only the second teenager in history to score in a World Cup final.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">The man he emulated was Brazil great Pele, who scored twice as an 18-year-old when Brazil beat Sweden 5-2 in the 1958 final and who is, to this day, the only player to have won three World Cups.<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">Mbappe was lavished with praise from all over the world for his performances in Russia, most notably for his scintillating match-winning display which <a href=\"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2018\/06\/30\/football\/france-argentina-kylian-mbappe-lionel-messi-world-cup-spt-intl\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">knocked Lionel Messi&#8217;s Argentina out of the competition<\/a>.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CNN)When Kylian Mbappe scored France&#8217;s final goal last July&#8217;s 4-2 victory over Croatia, he became only the second teenager in history to score in a World Cup final.The man he emulated was Brazil great Pele, who scored twice as an 18-year-old when Brazil beat Sweden 5-2 in the 1958 final and who is, to this&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":32762,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32761\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/32762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}