Lionel Messi is still a doubt Muscle discomfortHe will seek to achieve his second title tonight in an Inter Miami shirt when he faces the Houston Dynamo in the tournament final US Open Cup. The match will be held at 9:30 pm (Argentine time) at DRV PNK Stadium in Fort Lauderdale, and will be broadcast on television. TC Sports. There are doubts about the captain of the Argentine national team due to muscle pain that he has been suffering from since his participation in the South American qualifiers, but if he is not a starter, he will be on the bench.
Two months after his arrival in the United States, the Argentine star will seek to add his second title with Inter Miami. Messi previously won the League Cup with the team led by Gerardo Martino from Rosario on August 19, and by winning 44 titles, he became the winner. Football player in history. If he wins the oldest soccer championship in the United States, Messi will also leave behind the debate regarding the number of titles, as some estimates indicate that he has 43 titles. Controversy has swirled around his presence in the 2005 Spanish Super Cup with Barcelona ever since, although Messi did not do so. He participated in either final, was part of the team, and the Catalan club considers him one of the 35 titles he won with the “Blaugrana” shirt.
Messi arrives at this decisive match amid doubts due to pain in the posterior thigh muscles of his right leg, which he suffered in the first match against Ecuador, when he scored a wonderful goal from a free kick and was substituted one minute before the end. . The captain then traveled to La Paz to visit Bolivia but did not train with the team and was eventually left out of the match. He reappeared thirteen days later against Toronto in MLS but was only on the field for half an hour as he suffered from the same ailment.
Intermiami: Drake Callender; Noah Allen, Tomas Aviles, Serhiy Krivtsov, DeAndre Yedlin; Robert Taylor, Sergio Busquets, David Ruiz, Benjamin Cremaci; Lionel Messi or Leonardo Campana and Josef Martinez. DT: Gerardo Martino.
Houston Dynamo: Steve Clark; Franco Escobar, teenager Hadebe, Michael dos Santos Silva, Griffin Dorsey; Hector Herrera, Caicedo Mosquera; Nelson Quiñones, Arthur and Adalberto Carrasquilla; Corey Byrd. DT: Ben Olsen.
In the event of a tie at regular time, because only one match will be played, a 30-minute extra time will be played. If equality remains, everything will be decided on penalties. This method of resolving matches differs from those played in the League Cup, which were decided directly by penalty kicks after 90 minutes.
FIFA will move some of its offices located in the Swiss city of Zurich to the American city of Miami, with about a hundred employees participating in the move, the highest body in world football indicated on Wednesday. In this sense, FIFA had already moved part of the administration serving the member associations to Paris, and recently opened more offices in Miami to support the organization of the next World Cup, which will be held in the United States, Canada and Mexico in 2026. The offices will now have a more important role with the arrival Permanent staff who will work in four different departments.
In addition to the upcoming World Cup, FIFA considers Miami a strategic location due to its proximity to the 41 member associations in the CONCACAF region (North and Central America and the Caribbean) and its distinct links to South America. Miami has also raised its profile as a soccer city since the high-profile signing of Lionel Messi for Major League Soccer’s Inter Miami, a franchise owned by David Beckham. The organisation’s headquarters, located in Zurich, is known as the “Home of FIFA” and has been its headquarters since 2007. FIFA was founded in Paris in 1904 and moved to Zurich in 1932.
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