Lionel Messi Kicks off the 2024 Season with Inter Miami

Lionel Messi prepares to start the 2024 season (Reuters)

Lionel Messi already knows what his match schedule will be like during the first months of 2024 after it was recently announced what the Concacaf Champions Cup draw will be like, popularly known as Concachampions: a tournament that will take place between the February 6 and June 2.

Inter Miami will play in the top continental club tournament after winning the Leagues Cup title, which allowed them to directly enter the round of 16, a knockout phase that will be played between March 5 and 14. Before, on February 21, they will open the fire in the MLS against Real Salt Lake.

However, the captain of the Argentine national team will see action before playing in the North American elite competition and the championship that offers a place in the next Club World Cup, since his first match will be at the beginning of the preseason, when he faces each other on the 19th. January to the El Salvador National Team in a match that will take place at Cuscatlán Stadium in San Salvador.

“We are excited to begin announcing our preseason plans and preparations ahead of an exciting 2024 campaign. We look forward to facing the El Salvador national team in what will be a good first test for our team against the best players in the country,” said Chris Henderson, sporting director and sporting director, through an official statement from the club. As expected, tickets to see the Argentine star were sold out two months before.

Messi will have a hectic start to the preseason in 2024 (EFE)

That will be the first of the two duels that Inter Miami has against a national team, since two weeks later, more specifically on February 4, they will face the Hong Kong team at the Hong Kong Stadium. Before facing that meeting, meanwhile, he will have two extremely transcendental and emotional commitments.

The first will be on January 29, when he will meet again with one of his best friends in the sport. At the end of the month Lionel Messi will be at the Kingdom Arena Stadium in Riyadh as part of his tour of Asia to play a friendly match against Neymar and company’s Al Hilal. It should be noted that the Brazilian will not be able to be part of the team that takes the field since he will be in the process of rehabilitating a torn cruciate ligament and meniscus in his left knee.

Later, on February 1 he will face Cristiano Ronaldo again (and his Al Nassr full of figures), in what could be the last confrontation between the two best footballers of the last two decades.

Inter Miami will play two games in Arabia

Equally emotional will be the match that Rosario will play in the middle of the second month of the year (February 15). Once again at the DRV-PNK Stadium facilities, La Pulga will receive none other than Newell’s in a duel that will go around the world as it will face the club in which it was part of its inferiors. “The idea of ​​the match arose in Miami, the invitation came directly to us from there, surely Messi and Martino had a lot to do with all this,” said the president Ignacio Astore in dialogue with Zapping Sport on Radio 2.

Finally, regarding the official MLS calendar regarding the national competition, Inter Miami will debut in a new edition of the league on February 21 against Real Salt Lake at the DRV PNK Stadium in Fort Lauderdale, according to the calendar published by the American soccer regulatory body. Regarding the US Open Cup 2024, Inter Miami, like the rest of the MLS franchises, will not participate after an official statement.

What is known in advance is that Las Garzas fans have already sold out the season tickets for the 2024 season despite not knowing the upcoming calendar.

There are no more tickets left at the DRV PNK Stadium to see Lionel Messi’s Inter Miami in the 2024 MLS season (@InterMiamiCF)

LIONEL MESSI’S SCHEDULE WITH INTER MIAMI AT THE BEGINNING OF 2024

January 19: Inter Miami vs. El Salvador, Cuscatlán Stadium in San Salvador.

29th January: Inter Miami vs. Al Hilal, Kingdom Arena Stadium, Riyadh.

Feb. 1: Inter Miami; Al Nassr, Kingdom Arena Stadium, Riyadh.

4 de febrero: Inter Miami vs. Hong Kong, Hong Kong Stadium.

15 de febrero: Inter Miami vs. Newell’s, DRV-PNK Stadium.

21 de febrero: Inter Miami vs Real Salt Lake, DRV-PNK Stadium.

February 25: Inter Miami vs Los Angeles Galaxy, Dignity Health Sports Park

March 2; Inter Miami vs Orlando City SC, DRV PNK Stadium

March 4: First leg of the Concachampions Round of 16 (vs Nashville SC or Moca of the Dominican Republic)

10 de marzo: Inter Miami vs CF Montréal, DRV PNK Stadium

March 13: Second leg of the Concachampions round of 16 (vs Nashville SC or Moca of the Dominican Republic)

2023-12-25 03:45:00
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