Inter Miami Was Built To Win The Major Titles – Messi

Barcelona legend, Lionel Messi has come out to speak about life as a footballer in America. He recently had his say while speaking to the press, and fans have been reacting.

According to him, the team Inter Miami has built is meant to try to win a championship in American football because that is clearly the aim of the owners, so he and his teammates will keep aspiring to win the major titles in the US.

Messi added that he has always had it in my mind to play in the MLS, and he repeatedly said that over the years.

On Inter Miami, “I think that the team we have today is built to try to win a championship, and that is what we’re aiming at. I think there was a good adaptation from the boys that came, with the young folks that the club and the team had. And I think that’s the objective that has to remain, to aspire to get titles, keep helping the club to grow and that the youth that are emerging from the club have the chance to keep showing up, keep playing in the Inter, play in the MLS and give the opportunity to those who have a dream and fight to achieve it. I think that’s the path, right? To keep going upward, considering where we were at the start and keep growing a lot more.”

On Inter Miami and their first Club World Cup, “I think this is… very important for the club, especially, to participate for the first time in a World Cup that will take place in the country and for the MLS to have two teams is a wonderful thing, and like I said, everything that’s happening creates an opportunity for the MLS to keep growing in football, as a league, and for other players to have the opportunity to come and keep growing I think… football is different from the sports they are accustomed to watching in the U.S., and I think it should be managed differently because it’s a different sport and this is an opportunity to change the chip, to shift, and for the MLS to continue maturing.

I always had it in my mind to play in the MLS. I think I said it more than once. It attracted me and it was something I wanted to do. Coming to play for Inter Miami was an opportunity and the way things developed during my last years in Paris, although it was a decision that I had to make on the go because I had to leave from Barcelona, I went through two years which I didn’t enjoy. I wasn’t happy on a daily basis, with the trainings, and the matches, I had a hard time adapting to all that. I felt called to come to Inter because it’s a club that’s growing, very new, with few years as a club. I liked the idea of coming and help the club to become a greater club and I also knew it was a city that my family and I would enjoy, although I didn’t know it so well because I had come only a few times I knew about it, because I have family and friends that visited and visit this city and I thought it was the right time, and I don’t regret it, quite the opposite.”

WOW.

Lionel Andrés Messi, also known as Leo Messi, is an Argentine professional footballer who plays as a forward for and captains both Major League Soccer club Inter Miami and the Argentina national team. Widely regarded as one of the greatest players of all time, Messi has won a record seven Ballon d’Or awards and a record six European Golden Shoes, and in 2020 he was named to the Ballon d’Or Dream Team.

Until leaving the club in 2021, he had spent his entire professional career with Barcelona, where he won a club-record 35 trophies, including ten La Liga titles, seven Copa del Rey titles and the UEFA Champions League four times.

With his country, he won the 2021 Copa América and the 2022 FIFA World Cup. A prolific goalscorer and creative playmaker, Messi holds the records for most goals in La Liga (474), most hat-tricks in La Liga (36) and the UEFA Champions League (eight), and most assists in La Liga (192) and the Copa América (17).

He also has the most international goals by a South American male (103). Messi has scored over 800 senior career goals for club and country, and has the most goals by a player for a single club (672).