{"id":33896,"date":"2026-08-20T15:39:37","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T15:39:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/spain-reach-semi-finals-and-guillem-has-messis-email-football-daily\/"},"modified":"2026-08-20T15:39:37","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T15:39:37","slug":"spain-reach-semi-finals-and-guillem-has-messis-email-football-daily","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/spain-reach-semi-finals-and-guillem-has-messis-email-football-daily\/","title":{"rendered":"Spain Reach Semi-Finals\u2026 and Guillem Has Messi\u2019s Email! | Football Daily"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe  width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/sl5UaWfdHAY?autoplay=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>Spain are through to a mouthwatering World Cup semi-final against France.<\/p>\n<p>Rick Edwards and Lloyd Griffith are joined by Guillem Balague and Stephen Warnock after watching Spain&#8217;s win over Belgium in LA to discuss why Spain keep finding a way to win, whether Lamine Yamal has reached the heights everyone expected and why France now awaits in one of the ties of the tournament.<\/p>\n<p>The boys also look ahead to England&#8217;s quarter-final against Norway, with all eyes on the battle between Harry Kane and Erling Haaland.<\/p>\n<p>Plus, Guillem casually reveals he has Lionel Messi&#8217;s email address&#8230; and even gives Rick and Lloyd a glimpse.<\/p>\n<p>Follow more on the BBC Sport app, iPlayer and Sounds.<\/p>\n<p>=============<\/p>\n<p>Find us here: <\/p>\n<p>Facebook: https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/BBCMOTD<br \/>\nX: https:\/\/x.com\/BBCMOTD<br \/>\nInstagram: https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/bbcfootball\/<br \/>\nTikTok: https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@bbcsport<\/p>\n<p>#bbcfootball<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=sl5UaWfdHAY\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spain are through to a mouthwatering World Cup semi-final against France. Rick Edwards and Lloyd Griffith are joined by Guillem Balague and Stephen Warnock after watching Spain&#8217;s win over Belgium in LA to discuss why Spain keep finding a way to win, whether Lamine Yamal has reached the heights everyone expected and why France now [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33897,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-video","post_format-post-format-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33896"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33896\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33898,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33896\/revisions\/33898"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}