The Rise of Lionel Messi at Inter Miami: Closing in on Goal-Scoring Record

Sergio Domínguez CardosoAug 5, 2023, 18:37Reading: 2 min.

The current owner of the brand is Gonzalo Higuaín, who played 68 games with Inter Miami over three seasons in MLS.

With the shirt of Inter Miami, Lionel Messi He has played three games, scored five goals and is 25 away from beating his compatriot Gonzalo Higuain as the maximum network breaker in the history of the young team of the MLSwhich currently disputes Leagues Cupclassified as the leader of the South 3 group that he shared with Atlanta United, Cruz Azul and advanced to the round of 16 Orlando City.

Within the squad that the team’s board of directors made to face their first campaign in American football at the beginning of 2020, Inter Miami he recruited the mexican Rodolfo Pizarro along with the Argentines Matias Pellegrini y Gonzalo Higuainwho currently holds the title as the top net breaker in the team’s fledgling history.

Lionel Messi has had a great start with Inter Miami in the Leagues Cup.Getty Images

After a remarkable career of 18 seasons as a professional player in clubs like Real Madrid, Napoli y Juventusclubs with which he achieved his most notable achievements, Gonzalo Higuainat the age of 32, left for the United States to sign with Inter Miami and prepare his sports retirement.

The South American, two-time scoring champion in A league as the most outstanding individual achievement, (2014 and 2016) reached Inter Miami prior to the start of the 2020 season as a free agent and signed a contract until December 2022 for 8.2 million dollars, a figure that made him the highest paid soccer player in the league at that time.

Throughout three cycles with Inter Miami, Gonzalo Higuain He played 68 games and scored 29 times. His first goal was made in his third appearance with the Florida team against the New York Red Bulls, and he said goodbye to the courts on October 17, 2022, with a loss against NYC FC as a visitor.

In early 2014, MLS announced that David Beckham exercised the option to buy a space in the expansion plans of the league for 25 million dollars, which he received as part of the contract he signed to be a player of the LA Galaxy in 2007, and with it the league realized the idea of ​​creating a team based in Miami, Florida, which the commissioner Don Garber revived two years ago.

Four years after the official announcement and after consolidating a project, as well as building a stadium, the Club Internacional de Futbol Miami, -abbreviated Inter Miami-, was announced in 2018 as part of the teams that joined the ranks of MLS to 26 members for 2020 and debuted in that season, which was ultimately canceled due to the Covid-19 pandemic after 23 matches played for the nascent franchise.

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