Within a minute, he would have spent his very first game in the jersey of Inter Miami without being decisive. But the history of the Pulga on the other side of the Atlantic is not made of boredom and banality, it is made of spectacle and crowds who stand up. For his big premiere in Major League Soccer, the American football championship, the Argentine world champion was no exception to the rule.
Opposed to the New York Red Bulls, the former franchise of Thierry Henry, the herons won 2-0 thanks, therefore, to a goal from their number 10 in the 89th minute. The action is classy: Busquets finds Alba with a ball stung to the left of the surface, the left side hands Messi with an acrobatic gesture, then the Pulga controls, hooks his defender and requests the one-two with Benjamin Cremaschi. Messi’s first pass, from the outside of his foot to a deep Cremaschi on the right, is superb. A gesture that only players of Messi’s caliber can perform with such spontaneity.
A little over a month after his arrival with great fanfare in Miami, within the franchise owned by David Beckham, Leo Messi panics the counters and the public. In now 9 games played, he has 9 wins for 11 goals and 3 assists and has not gone a single game without being decisive at least once. Tonight’s game against New York was his first ever in MLS, for the resumption of the season. Previously, he played in and won the “Leagues Cup”, an off-season competition bringing together clubs from MLS and Liga MX (Mexican D1). The first trophy in the very young history of Inter Miami.
