Lionel Messi at The Best 2023 awards gala.
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The name of Lionel Messi The last days are mentioned insistently for two reasons. The first of them is that she kept the award The Best, an award given by FIFA to the person considered the best player of the year; the second is due to the threats against him executed by the mafia from the Argentine city of Rosario.
But while all this is happening, The Argentine star continues to do what he knows how to do best: play football and dazzle day after day. In the last match of Paris Saint-Germain (PSG), Messi scored a goal in the 4-2 victory over Nantes, warning what will be the next match for the round of 16 Champions League against Bayern Munich, a match that could define the success or failure of the French season.
He Messi’s silence regarding the current situation of tension in his native Argentina after the shooting attack against a supermarket, owned by the family of his wife Antonela Roccuzzo, contrasts with his level on the pitch and after winning The Best, possibly the last of his career considering his seniority ( 36 years).
David Beckham continues behind Messi to arm his Inter Miami
A gathering that has been taking place for months is where Lionel Messi will retire. His longtime rival, Cristiano Ronaldo, headed for the exotic Saudi Arabia league at 38 years old and the homework of a prodigious career already done.
Now the Argentinian has two possibilities, to remain united with Qatar via PSG, or accept an offer from other lower level leagues and that is where the MLS comes in, since David Beckham and his Inter Miami have long been knocking on Messi’s doortalking to his environment and trying to seduce him to sign with the franchise on the east coast of the United States.
Even MLS commissioner Don Garber, in a recent interview with The Athletic, did not deny the possibility that the historic world champion will play in the US.
“The rumors connecting Messi with Inter Miami are great. If it happened, it would be fantastic for MLS, it would be fantastic for Messi and his family and like everything with us. I can’t give more details than that, we don’t have them”, declared the highest authority of the MLS.
Messi’s arrival in the United States would be a real commercialization and marketing boom. MLS is already used to having great established figures; years ago it had Pelé, Franz Beckenbauer, Carlos ‘Pibe’ Valderrama, until moving to modern times with David Beckham, Robbie Keane, Thierry Henry, Zlatan Ibrahimovic, Gareth Bale, Carlos Vela, Javier ‘Chicharito’ Hernández, Giorgio Chiellini and Lorenzo Distinguished.
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