Great goal by Lionel Messi at Inter Miami!: Leo scored from a free kick for the Leagues Cup | VIDEO

The Argentine genius appeared. Lionel Messi scored his first goal with Miami Interin the match against Blue Cross by date 1 of the group stage of the League Cup 2023 at the DRV PNK Stadium in Fort Lauderdale. See Leo’s annotation here.

Messi debut

Wearing the Inter Miami number 10 for the first time, Lionel Messi will open a new chapter of his extraordinary career on Friday at the inauguration of the Leagues Cup, a trophy for which the 47 MLS teams and the Mexican league will compete.

This pioneering union of two leagues, for a tournament that will be played entirely in the United States and Canada until the final on August 19, gained global appeal with Messi’s decision to leave European soccer and start a new life in Miami.

In his presentation on Sunday at the DRV PNK stadium, the Argentine star summoned his new fans to meet again on Friday for the match against the Mexican Cruz Azul that will open the Leagues Cup.

In that duel, which will face the last classifieds of MLS and Liga MX, both Messi and Spanish midfielder Sergio Busquets, his former Barcelona teammate, are expected to play their first minutes with Inter either as starters or starting from the bench.

Both Argentine coach Gerardo Martino and David Beckham, co-owner of the franchise, have warned in recent days that Messi will have the last word on his presence in the match, whose tickets exceed a resale price of $18,000.

“It will be Leo who decides if he is ready, because we know that he has been away for a few weeks with his family. But he looks sharp, he looks very good, ”said Beckham while he warned that Messi may need time to adapt and adjust physically.

“They both arrived very well, we can have some expectation of seeing them on Friday. But I don’t want to rush to say something that I can’t comply with later,” ‘Tata’ Martino told the Argentine sports channel TyC on Wednesday.

The Argentine counselor said this Thursday at a press conference with Busquets that “the results are expected immediately and we want it to be so, because the plan we have will surely flow better if we direct it with positive results.”

Inter Miami made official this Friday the signing of the Spanish Jordi Alba, a teammate of Messi and Busquets for a decade at FC Barcelona.