Lionel Messi is not happy at this time. After Inter Miami was routed 3-0 by Orlando on Sunday night and fell to 1-5-1 in its last seven games in all competitions, the eight-time winner of Ballon D’Or and the World Cup 2022 champion that rarely gives him an entrance vision for the Tame Matches team matches together.
“It’s a difficult time, but let’s overcome this,” Messi said in Spanish. “Now we will really see if we are a team. These are dissemination times. When everything goes well, it is very easy, but when the dark times arrive, as now, we have to be more united than ever, and we will.”
Inter Miami fell to 6-3-4 in Major League Soccer this season, sixth at the Eastern Conference. Messi’s team established a MLS record for the best brand of the regular season a year ago, with 22-4-8 ending with the largest number of points and percentage of higher winners in the history of the League. The four losses in the regular season tied a league brand for the least amount in a season.
But this season you see nothing that was last season.
“We are leaving a period of bad results,” said Messi. “But we have to continue working and think about what follows. With three or four remaining games in May, we have to finish the best possible way to face the Club World Cup.”
That tournament begins on June 14. It is the next great event in the Inter Miami calendar, but there may be other news in the intermediate, with coach Javier Mascherano, in a separate interview of Apple TV before the game, insinuating that the team and Messi May.
Messi, who arrived at the club in an agreement of two and a half years, is only under contract until the end of this MLS season, although the team has made him for at least 2026, when the new plans to move to move to move.
The team signed one of the teammates in Barcelona and Miami de Messi, Jordi Alba, until 2027 last week in what seemed like a sign that maintaining Messi can be possible.
“Hopefully in a few weeks we can have some news about Leo,” said Mascherano. “I think it will be very, very important for the club, fans and for the MLS.”
Associated Press reports.
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