Jason McIntyre is joined by The Athletic’s Paul Tenorio to preview Lionel Messi’s MLS debut coming on Friday with Inter Miami CF. What led Messi to choose the MLS? And how will Messi’s presence affect soccer’s popularity in the USA?
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In order to compete with the EPL and top European leagues you need to be offer the ultimate rewards, not just financial but all the best players in their prime want to play in the highest stand most prestigious club competition, which is the European Champions League. So the only hope for MLS is if a world club completion is expanded to such a level that it becomes more attractive and lucrative than the Euro Champions League or hope that there's some way where MLS teams are invited to play against Europes best teams.
Messi certainly isn't washed. He's getting older and has had to modify his style. So expect him to spend plenty of time walking and jogging on the pitch. Also he won't be as quick however he'll still be able to provide 4 or 5 moments of (not seen very often) pure magic each game. Basically he's still good enough to have a major effect the result.
Bro focus on liga mx league your team might get kicked in leagues cup and tell the team here
Messi is definitely not a media personality and never will be. He's also devastatingly normal and inconspicuous outside of football, so the US media shouldn't really expect him to be very open or talkative to them.
The next 5 years will be massive for the MLS.
As for the team, Inter Miami are terrible, but with a few new players, you never know. Messi, Busquets, or Jordi Alba will not help their horrible transition defence, though. Other than simply not giving the ball away as often, of course. I wouldn't expect them in the post season, but the Leagues Cup or (more likely) the US Open Cup should be their main objectives.
You’re making too big of a deal of Messi’s media side. In Europe we do know how he sounds like, gives plenty of interviews, he’s a reserved person but for international soccer standards is not against media, he often opens the doors of his home for interviews for outlets from around the world, and deals with this side of the sport in a very relaxed way.
If you don't know how Messi sounds, it's because you don't follow football, maybe soccer I guess.
By the way I haven't heard Federer once, and there is a reason…I think you get the idea
Great conversation.
Is naive to think the MLS and La Liga can match Europe or even the South American giant’s, the issue here is that profits take president and as such you don’t develop players very well. Coaching is another issue, infrastructure, we have athletes but we don’t have futbol players yet, both players from the U.S. and Mexico lack the technical knowledge of players from South America and Europe, Africa has better players and that’s a bad look for us. We can certainly grow but is gonna take more time.
thanks for the soccer vid! heck yea
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