{"id":14623,"date":"2026-07-21T21:59:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T21:59:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mantolay.com\/?p=14623"},"modified":"2026-07-21T21:59:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T21:59:12","slug":"everyone-noticed-what-two-argentina-players-did-when-they-came-face-to-face-with-president-on-the-podium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mantolay.com\/?p=14623","title":{"rendered":"Everyone noticed what two Argentina players did when they came face-to-face with President on the podium"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Argentina\u2019s heroes shattered. The stadium frozen. And then, in front of the watching world, two players walked straight past Donald Trump. No handshake. No smile.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On a night meant to crown legends, Argentina\u2019s defeat instead exposed raw nerves and deeper fault lines. As silver medals were handed out, Lisandro Mart\u00ednez and Cristian Romero visibly swerved Donald Trump\u2019s outstretched hand, greeting Mexico\u2019s Claudia Sheinbaum and Canada\u2019s Mark Carney instead. It was a split-second gesture, but one loaded with meaning in a tournament dogged by allegations of corruption and political theatre. Lisandro went further, refusing to acknowledge FIFA chief Gianni Infantino altogether, turning a routine ceremony into a silent act of rebellion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On the pitch, the pain boiled over. Leandro Paredes lunged at Spain\u2019s Gavi, Nahuel Molina appeared to swing at a celebrating substitute, and the dream farewell for Lionel Messi dissolved into chaos. The icon stood in tears, staring into the crowd, while coach Lionel Scaloni broke down, openly doubting his future. In that moment, glory, grief, politics, and pride collided \u2013 and nothing about Argentina\u2019s story felt certain anymore.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Argentina\u2019s heroes shattered. The stadium frozen. And then, in front of the watching world, two players walked straight past Donald Trump. No handshake. No smile.\u00a0 On a&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1904,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mantolay.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mantolay.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mantolay.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mantolay.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mantolay.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14623"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mantolay.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14623\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14624,"href":"https:\/\/mantolay.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14623\/revisions\/14624"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mantolay.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mantolay.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mantolay.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mantolay.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}