{"id":34376,"date":"2026-08-31T16:15:19","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T16:15:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/david-villa-why-spain-can-win-the-world-cup-again-messis-greatness-football-daily\/"},"modified":"2026-08-31T16:15:19","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T16:15:19","slug":"david-villa-why-spain-can-win-the-world-cup-again-messis-greatness-football-daily","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/david-villa-why-spain-can-win-the-world-cup-again-messis-greatness-football-daily\/","title":{"rendered":"David Villa: Why Spain Can Win the World Cup Again + Messi&#8217;s Greatness | Football Daily"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe  width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OX8aOvW2Exg?autoplay=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>World Cup winner and Spain&#8217;s record goalscorer, David Villa, joins Rick Edwards to reflect on Spain&#8217;s impressive 2-0 win over Austria and explains why he believes they can go all the way at this World Cup.<\/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=OX8aOvW2Exg\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>World Cup winner and Spain&#8217;s record goalscorer, David Villa, joins Rick Edwards to reflect on Spain&#8217;s impressive 2-0 win over Austria and explains why he believes they can go all the way at this World Cup. Follow more on the BBC Sport app, iPlayer and Sounds. ============= Find us here: Facebook: https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/BBCMOTD X: https:\/\/x.com\/BBCMOTD Instagram: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34377,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34376","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\/34376","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=34376"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34376\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34378,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34376\/revisions\/34378"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}