{"id":37633,"date":"2019-03-27T12:23:55","date_gmt":"2019-03-27T12:23:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=37633"},"modified":"2019-03-27T12:23:55","modified_gmt":"2019-03-27T12:23:55","slug":"why-lionel-messi-is-the-worlds-best-player","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=37633","title":{"rendered":"Why Lionel Messi is the world&#8217;s best player"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\"> (CNN)<\/cite>Leading sports scientist Simon Brundish gives a knowing look when asked who is the best footballer in the world. &#8220;While he&#8217;s alive, there&#8217;s only Lionel Messi,&#8221; Brundish says. &#8220;If you&#8217;re saying anybody else is the best player in the world, Messi&#8217;s had a broken leg for a year, or he&#8217;s dead, or you&#8217;re lying.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">Given Messi is widely considered among the greatest players to ever play the game, that might not seem like too startling an insight. But Brundish has a set of statistics he believes sufficiently ends any debate on the matter.<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">&#8220;Currently Messi has a goal or assist every 48 minutes,&#8221; Brundish says. &#8220;Bearing in mind that every game is almost 95 minutes long (when injury time is included) that&#8217;s two almost every single game.&#8221;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CNN)Leading sports scientist Simon Brundish gives a knowing look when asked who is the best footballer in the world. &#8220;While he&#8217;s alive, there&#8217;s only Lionel Messi,&#8221; Brundish says. &#8220;If you&#8217;re saying anybody else is the best player in the world, Messi&#8217;s had a broken leg for a year, or he&#8217;s dead, or you&#8217;re lying.&#8221;Given Messi&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":37634,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37633","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\/37633","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=37633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37633\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/37634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}