Miami.- The Argentine star Lionel Messi He said Friday that playing in the American football league “always” was his priority after his stage in Europe and was excited about the participation of the Inter Miami in the Club World Cup in the middle of the year.
“I always had in my head play in the Mls. More than once I said it, it was something that caught my attention. Come to Inter Miami was an opportunity, for how everything was given, in recent years in Paris, “said the captain of the Argentine team in an interview with Apple TV.
“It caught my attention to Inter because it was a growing club, all very new, I liked the idea of coming and helping the club be bigger. And I knew it was a city where my family could be fine. I do not regret it, quite the opposite,” added the world champion.
Signed in mid -July 2023 by Inter Miami, co -ownership of former English soccer player David Beckham, Messi said that the participation of the Capital del Sol Club in the Club World Cup is “very important” and that the team is built to win the MLS championship.
“Very important for the club to be able to participate in the first Club World Cup here in the country, that the MLS has two teams (Inter and Seattle Sounders) is something great. I think that everything that is happening is an opportunity for the MLS to continue growing as a league and that other players have the opportunity to come and continue growing,” Messi valued, 37 years and eight times winner of the golden ball.
Enjoying the present
“I think the team we have today is built to try to get the championship (of the MLS). And in that line we are,” he noted.
On their future and eventual participation in the 2026 World Cup, which the United States, Canada and Mexico will organize, Messi avoided doing long -term projections and assured that the present is what motivates it.
“Today I am enjoying where I am, from what I do, from day to day, the training, of the matches, of my friends, of my family. I enjoy when I go to Argentina, I enjoy much more that when I was young and I did not realize many things. I enjoy more of the small details that I did not give importance before. And the truth is that I feel happy and living the day to day,” he said.
“I was never thinking about the future, but to live the day to day. And I believe that when things happen it is because it has to be so, because it has to happen that way,” he said.
In 41 games with Inter Miami, Messi has scored 36 goals and is the scoring leader in the history of the franchise, surpassing his compatriot Gonzalo Higuaín (29) and the Ecuadorian Leonardo Campana (32).
He has started in the eight Inter Miami games in 2025, counting preseason (5), Concacaf Champions Cup (2) and the League Tournament (1).
