Inter Miami CF closed out its 2026 preseason tour, with the fourth stop of the Champions Tour seeing the Club take on Ecuadorian champions Independiente del Valle in a thrilling friendly at Estadio Juan Ram\u00f3n Loubriel in Bayam\u00f3n, Puerto Rico. The matchup in front of a full house resulted in a 2-1 victory for Inter Miami, with Academy product Santiago Morales and captain Leo Messi getting onto the scoresheet on the night in the 16th and 70th minutes respectively.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Notably, our Academy\u2019s influence was felt in our final 2026 preseason fixture. Inter Miami II players and Academy products Cesar Abadia-Reda and Joseph Convers made their First Team\u2019s debut, with Abadia-Reda featuring in the starting XI. Additionally, the goal from Morales in the first half was the first in open play for the Homegrown midfielder for the Club\u2019s First Team.<\/p>\n
Next, Inter Miami will carry on with 2026 MLS regular season action with a trip up-state to take on rivals Orlando City SC this Sunday, March 1 at 7 p.m. ET.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Inter Miami CF closed out its 2026 preseason tour, with the fourth stop of the Champions Tour seeing…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":171059,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[4799,123,125,124,5692,56527],"class_list":["post-171058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-match-recap","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news","tag-mls","tag-preseason"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171058","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=171058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171058\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/171059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}