{"id":174718,"date":"2026-03-02T08:18:24","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T08:18:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/174718\/"},"modified":"2026-03-02T08:18:24","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T08:18:24","slug":"lionel-messi-knocked-down-after-fans-storm-pitch-during-inter-miami-friendly-in-puerto-rico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/174718\/","title":{"rendered":"Lionel Messi knocked down after fans storm pitch during Inter Miami friendly in Puerto Rico"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Soccer star <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/miami\/tag\/lionel-messi\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">Lionel Messi<\/a> was knocked to the ground by a fan and a security guard at the end of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/miami\/sports\/inter-miami-cf\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">Inter Miami<\/a>&#8216;s friendly match in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/miami\/sports\/puerto-rico\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">Puerto Rico<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Inter Miami was playing Ecuador&#8217;s Independiente del Valle in Bayam\u00f3n on Thursday when a fan ran to the center circle and grabbed Messi by the waist before both were pulled down by a security guard.<\/p>\n<p>Messi appeared to be unharmed. The Argentine star immediately got up and walked to another part of the pitch.<\/p>\n<p>It happened around the 88th minute of the exhibition tour match. Several fans jumped onto the pitch at Juan Ram\u00f3n Loubriel stadium.<\/p>\n<p>The match was originally scheduled for Feb. 13, but was postponed because Messi felt discomfort in his leg during the previous exhibition match against Barcelona SC of Ecuador.<\/p>\n<p>Santiago Morales and Messi scored in the 16th and 70th minutes respectively to give Inter Miami a 2-1 win. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/miami\/tag\/miami\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">Miami<\/a>, which started its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/miami\/tag\/major-league-soccer\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">MLS season<\/a> with a 3-0 loss to LAFC, faces Orlando City next Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Soccer star Lionel Messi was knocked to the ground by a fan and a security guard at the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":174719,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1660,8003,123,125,124,4102,2062,110],"class_list":{"0":"post-174718","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-miami","8":"tag-lionel-messi","9":"tag-major-league-soccer","10":"tag-miami","11":"tag-miami-headlines","12":"tag-miami-news","13":"tag-puerto-rico","14":"tag-soccer","15":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174718","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=174718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174718\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/174719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}