{"id":217904,"date":"2023-06-07T00:21:17","date_gmt":"2023-06-06T18:51:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=217904"},"modified":"2023-06-07T00:21:17","modified_gmt":"2023-06-06T18:51:17","slug":"iniesta-says-goodbye-to-old-friends-at-barcelona-in-friendly-in-tokyo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2023\/06\/07\/iniesta-says-goodbye-to-old-friends-at-barcelona-in-friendly-in-tokyo\/","title":{"rendered":"Iniesta says goodbye to old friends at Barcelona in friendly in Tokyo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">TOKYO, 6 Jun: Andres Iniesta said goodbye to old friends as he played for his Japanese club Vissel Kobe against his former club Barcelona in a friendly at the National Stadium on Tuesday.<br \/>\nBarcelona won the match 2-0. Iniesta played 674 games for Barcelona from 2002-18, winning 30 trophies. He also scored the winning goal for Spain in the 2010 World Cup final.<br \/>\nLast month, he announced he was leaving the Japanese club after his final match on July 1 in the western city of Kobe.<br \/>\nIniesta played five seasons with Vissel Kobe and has not announced his plans. The 39-year-old midfielder says he wants to keep playing, which he has not been doing much of this season.<br \/>\nSpanish champion Barcelona flew directly to Japan after its last Liga match on Sunday, and was expected to return by charter after the Kobe friendly. (AP)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TOKYO, 6 Jun: Andres Iniesta said goodbye to old friends as he played for his Japanese club Vissel Kobe against his former club Barcelona in a friendly at the National Stadium on Tuesday. Barcelona won the match 2-0. Iniesta played 674 games for Barcelona from 2002-18, winning 30 trophies. He also scored the winning goal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-217904","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217904\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}