{"id":161263,"date":"2026-02-19T15:08:15","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T15:08:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/161263\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T15:08:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T15:08:15","slug":"lionel-messi-german-berterame-set-to-play-opening-day-for-inter-miami-vs-lafc-after-participating-in-training","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/161263\/","title":{"rendered":"Lionel Messi, German Berterame set to play Opening Day for Inter Miami vs. LAFC after participating in training"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Both players participated in Mascherano\u2019s South American preseason tour, though their availability for Saturday had been uncertain.<\/p>\n<p>Messi\u2019s status was in doubt due to lingering muscle discomfort, which led to the postponement of the friendly in Puerto Rico against Independiente del Valle.<\/p>\n<p>Berterame, meanwhile, was unable to train fully with the group while awaiting his work visa. Now cleared, the Mexican forward is available for the season opener.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Both players participated in Mascherano\u2019s South American preseason tour, though their availability for Saturday had been uncertain. Messi\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":161264,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[64889,5429,10133,17156,77219,8003,123,125,124],"class_list":{"0":"post-161263","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-miami","8":"tag-g-berterame","9":"tag-inter-miami-cf","10":"tag-l-messi","11":"tag-los-angeles-fc","12":"tag-los-angeles-fc-vs-inter-miami-cf","13":"tag-major-league-soccer","14":"tag-miami","15":"tag-miami-headlines","16":"tag-miami-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161263\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/161264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}