{"id":191995,"date":"2026-03-15T00:12:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-15T00:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/191995\/"},"modified":"2026-03-15T00:12:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-15T00:12:07","slug":"why-lionel-messi-isnt-playing-for-inter-miami-vs-charlotte-fc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/191995\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Lionel Messi Isn\u2019t Playing for Inter Miami vs. Charlotte FC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"inline-text-0\" class=\"mt-[18px] md:mt-0 mb-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"6r\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/soccer\/team\/inter-miami-cf\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Inter Miami<\/a> will not feature Lionel Messi for Saturday\u2019s road match against Charlotte FC.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-1\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"6u\">Manager Javier Mascherano decided to give rest to the eight-time Ballon D\u2019Or winner along with Rodrigo De Paul, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Jarm21\/status\/2032946112517013914?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">according to reports from Claro Sports reporter Jos\u00e9 Armando on X<\/a>. Neither player will be on the bench either, as they did not travel with the team to North Carolina.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-3\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"70\">Mascherano\u2019s precautionary choice will leave the throngs of fans at the 75,000-seat Bank of America Stadium disappointed, not only for the missed opportunity to see the international superstar, but also because Messi is just a single goal away from hitting the 900 career mark, a historic milestone achieved only once before by Messi\u2019s former La Liga rival, Cristiano Ronaldo, who has 965 career goals now.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-4\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"73\">Messi and De Paul rest in preparation for the second leg of the Concacaf Champions Cup round of 16 against Nashville SC, after a scoreless draw on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>READ THE LATEST INTER MIAMI NEWS, ANALYSIS AND INSIGHT FROM SI FC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Inter Miami will not feature Lionel Messi for Saturday\u2019s road match against Charlotte FC. Manager Javier Mascherano decided&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":191996,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124],"class_list":["post-191995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191995","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=191995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191995\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/191996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}