Miami.- He Inter Miami He arrives at the Club World Cup with “desire to show the true value” he has, his coach said Friday, Javier Mascheranoon the eve of the beginning of the competition in the Floridana city.
For the Argentine coach, the tournament of the FIFAwhich premieres a format of 32 teams in the United States, will be an opportunity for the Astro team Lionel Messi Keep growing.
“It’s a good time to measure” the best teams “and see what we are made of,” Mascherano said at a press conference.
“The level rises and we want to live up to it,” he added, qualifying the World Cup as the “most important competition in the history of the club.”
He will be debuted in the tournament against the Egyptian Ahly, on Saturday at 8:00 p.m. (00h00 GMT on Sunday) at the Hard Rock Stadium in Miami.
He will do it without one of his figures, the left side Jordi Alba, absent from an injury, Mascherano confirmed.
But the locals can count on Messi, the man who put this young MLS club on the map with his signing in 2023.
About to turn 38, the captain of the Albiceleste remains the greatest hope of Inter to play a good role in the competition.
The world champion in Catar 2022 will have the help of Sergio Busquets and Luis Suárez, his two former partners of the great time of FC Barcelona.
“We have the advantage of having a few players who have played this type of competitions (…) and there is nothing better in football than a partner who can convey that,” Mascherano celebrated about the presence of their former partners of Barça.
The great regret
The coach regretted, however, the fact of not having been able to incorporate reinforcements into the team, unlike other participants to the competition.
According to him, these changes were necessary to alleviate the injuries suffered by cash and also to be able to compete in a tournament where football giants such as Real Madrid, Manchester City or Paris Saint-Germain appear.
“This is another level, it is not that we are used to competing,” he acknowledged.
