Lionel Messi: Why Inter Miami was the ideal place to become the most winning team in football history

From LaLiga 2004-05 with Barça to the tournament won yesterday against Nashville (10-9 on penalties after a 1-1 draw in the 90th minute with his great goal), 18 years have passed. That speaks of the validity of a genius who in December last year, with his 35th birthday on top, won the World Cup being the best in the tournament.

It is his first trophy with Inter Miami just 29 days after arriving. Never before had he partied so quickly in a club. And it is also the baptismal consecration of the Florida franchise that he is barely five years old.

“Sports in the United States have changed”, tells us Sammy Sadovnik, a Peruvian journalist who has lived in Miami for 23 years and who has shouted the nine goals of the ‘Flea’ for Apple TV. The love of soccer no longer seems like a matter of marketing in Major League Soccer. It’s a Messi thing.

Some may go to Arabia seduced by petrodollars, but Leo managed to make Miami, his kingdom, the capital of world soccer.

Messi, his trophies and which one is under debate

messi has achieved 35 titles with Barcelonabeing ten from LaLiga, seven Copa del Rey, eight Spanish Super Cup, four Champions League, three European Super Cup and three Club World Cup.

With the Argentina team he managed to remove a large pending thorn. He won the World Cup, in addition to the Copa América and adds to a U20 World Cup and a gold medal at the 2008 Olympic Games. In addition, he put the finishing touch with the victory against Italy in the UEFA Finalissima and Conmebol .

With PSG, in his two years in France, he obtained two Ligue 1 and a French Super Cup. He could never raise the ‘Orejona’. And at Inter Miami he already has his first cup: the Leagues Cup 2023.

However, there is a title that for some journalists is under debate. This is the 2005 Spanish Super Cup in which Messi was part of the Barça squad, but he was not called up for either of the two matches, one due to being ill and the other by coach Frank Rijkaard’s own decision.

Although the footballer himself, through his official websitesaid trophy is awarded, so it is also counted.