{"id":15984,"date":"2013-02-01T05:24:00","date_gmt":"2013-02-01T05:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2013\/02\/video-watch-how-essien-bodychecked-messi-to-stop-barcelona-star\/"},"modified":"2013-02-01T05:24:00","modified_gmt":"2013-02-01T05:24:00","slug":"video-watch-how-essien-bodychecked-messi-to-stop-barcelona-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/02\/01\/video-watch-how-essien-bodychecked-messi-to-stop-barcelona-star\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: Watch How Essien Bodychecked Messi To Stop Barcelona Star"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<p><span class=\"small-txt c14\">Posted On Friday, 1st February 2013<\/span><\/p>\n<div readability=\"40.386973180077\">\n<div id=\"attachment_211946\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter c15\" readability=\"8\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-211946\" title=\"FBL-ESP-CUP-REALMADRID-BARCELONA\" src=\"http:\/\/img.ghanamma.com\/uploads\/2013\/02\/a276ess-messi-300x230.jpg\" alt=\"Essien bodychecked the Argentine star off the ball as he had the world's best player in his pocket and owned the best player in the world time and again.\" width=\"300\" height=\"230\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Messi (L) vies with Real Madrid&#8217;s Ghanaian midfielder Michael Essien during the Spanish Copa del Rey<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>Real Madrid midfielder Michael Essien has earned huge praise for stopping Barcelona star Lionel Messi during Wednesday El-Classico.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Essien bodychecked the Argentine star off the ball as he had the world\u2019s best player in his pocket and owned the best player in the world time and again.<\/p>\n<p>Essien uses Messi\u2019s weakness as an advantage as he nudges him off the ball<\/p>\n<p><strong>Watch video of Essien\u2019s action below<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Posted On Friday, 1st February 2013 Messi (L) vies with Real Madrid&#8217;s Ghanaian midfielder Michael Essien during the Spanish Copa del Rey Real Madrid midfielder Michael Essien has earned huge praise for stopping Barcelona star Lionel Messi during Wednesday El-Classico. Essien bodychecked the Argentine star off the ball as he had the world\u2019s best player in his pocket and owned the best player in the world time and again&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15984\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}