{"id":589,"date":"2018-06-19T03:02:02","date_gmt":"2018-06-19T03:02:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sudlatnid.com\/apps\/wp\/?p=589"},"modified":"2018-06-19T03:02:02","modified_gmt":"2018-06-19T03:02:02","slug":"messi-walks-better-than-most-players-run-fivethirtyeight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sudlatnid.com\/?p=589","title":{"rendered":"Messi Walks Better Than Most Players Run | FiveThirtyEight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<em>Throughout his career, Messi <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espnfc.com\/uefa-champions-league\/story\/1780845\/stats-show-how-barcelonas-lionel-messi-failed-to-influence-atletico-madrid-game\">has been criticized for walking<\/a>. After an El Clasico match between Barcelona and Real Madrid in December 2017, there was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sport-english.com\/en\/news\/barca\/how-barcas-lionel-messi-decided-the-clasico-in-walking-mode-6517548\">widespread coverage<\/a> of the fact that Messi walked 83 percent of the roughly 5 miles he covered that game. Despite this, he scored and assisted in Barca\u2019s 3-0 trouncing.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/fivethirtyeight.com\/features\/messi-walks-better-than-most-players-run\/?utm_source=pocket&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=pockethits\">Messi Walks Better Than Most Players Run | FiveThirtyEight<\/a><\/em>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Throughout his career, Messi has been criticized for walking. After an El Clasico match between Barcelona and Real Madrid in December 2017, there was widespread&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","wpcat-15-id"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sudlatnid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sudlatnid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sudlatnid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sudlatnid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sudlatnid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sudlatnid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sudlatnid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sudlatnid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sudlatnid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}