The league that Messi could reach unexpectedly
Lionel Messi and Inter Miami
Lionel Messi is having a dream year and his arrival at Inter Miami has been extremely outstanding. Messi is positioned as one of the players of the moment and recently won the 2023 Ballon d’Or, as well as the athlete of the year by Times magazine. The player is having an important moment in the United States and now, a possible and unexpected destiny of the footballer in the future is revealed, all for an unusual reason.
The prestigious American magazine Times motivates his decision in the following way: “Messi has achieved what previously seemed impossible: making the United States a football country.” Thus, ‘Time’ dedicates its entire cover to Messi and a long interview, in which the champion said that he preferred the North American MLS to the petrodollars of Saudi Arabia, although the first option would have been to return to Barcelona: «I had two options, Saudi Saudi, a country for which I am a tourism ambassador and which I really liked, and the MLS in the United States.”
The fact that Messi is an ambassador for Saudi Arabia opens the possibility of the footballer reaching said league at some point in his career. It is evident that Messi will not be at the best level of everyone in 5 years, but it is enough time to try a new adventure, and obviously, have one of the most important contracts in the history of football.
Which team wanted Messi in the summer of 2023?
From Argentina they suggest that Lionel Messi was on Al Hilal’s radar. In fact, they assure that he was the first option before the signing, at the moment disappointing, of the Brazilian player Neymar Jr. was finalized. In the end, Inter Miami chose Inter Miami, a club that pays him 20 million dollars a year, remembers the magazine, and of which he will become a shareholder when he stops playing, while giving the club the first trophy in its history. The United States League Cup, in which he scored from his first appearance