Lionel Messi MLS regular-season debut delayed, seemingly date revealed

MLS followers must wait just a little longer for Lionel Messi’s first regular-season match with Inter Miami CF.

Miami’s Aug. 20 match towards Charlotte FC would have been Messi’s first in MLS play, nevertheless it was postponed to an unspecified date after each golf equipment superior to the Leagues Cup quarterfinals.

Inter Miami will face Charlotte within the quarterfinals Friday at DRV PNK Stadium. One of the 2 golf equipment will play in both the ultimate or third place match on Aug. 19.

Messi’s first MLS match now’s anticipated to be Saturday, Aug. 26, on the New York Red Bulls.

Messi can even compete within the US Open Cup on Aug. 23 when Miami visits MLS-leading FC Cincinnati for a semifinal match.

Messi scored on one other free kick in final week’s spherical of 16 elimination recreation towards Dallas. The tying purpose led to a victory on penalty kicks and gave Messi his third consecutive two-goal recreation for Inter Miami.

The World Cup champion’s purpose within the eighty fifth minute was paying homage to the game-winner in his Inter Miami debut. Both have been on free kicks from simply outdoors the penalty field within the waning moments, every sneaking previous the goalkeeper into the higher nook of the web.

Messi has scored in all 4 matches for Inter Miami, with seven objectives whole. His new U.S. membership is 4-0 — all within the Leagues Cup — after going winless in 9 consecutive MLS matches earlier than the 36-year-old arrived.

Messi, seven-time winner of the Ballon d’Or, the soccer world’s most prestigious particular person award, signed with Miami final month after two years with Paris Saint-Germain. In a profession spanning greater than 17 years with Argentina’s nationwide workforce, Messi has scored greater than 100 objectives.

He signed for two 1/2 seasons value between $50 million and $60 million yearly, that means a complete contract worth between $125 million and $150 million in money alone.