{"id":236706,"date":"2026-04-18T08:40:30","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T08:40:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/236706\/"},"modified":"2026-04-18T08:40:30","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T08:40:30","slug":"inter-miamis-guillermo-hoyos-grateful-to-coach-lionel-messi-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/236706\/","title":{"rendered":"Inter Miami’s Guillermo Hoyos ‘grateful’ to coach Lionel Messi again"},"content":{"rendered":"

New Inter Miami CF<\/a> interim head coach Guillermo Hoyos insists he’s grateful to be working alongside Lionel Messi<\/a> once again, and defended his friendship with the Argentina<\/a> striker, with whom he first worked at Barcelona<\/a>‘s renowned La Masia academy more than 20 years ago.<\/p>\n

Messi expressed his own gratitude for Hoyos’ impact on his career during a news conference in 2005, detailing the relationship.<\/p>\n

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“He helped me a lot from the moment he arrived at Barcelona, he was with me at all times. He gave me advice, taught me things and did everything possible so that I could be where I am today, in the first division,” Messi said in 2005.<\/p>\n

The two will now work together again on an interim basis as Hoyos replaces Javier Mascherano as head coach.<\/p>\n

Inter Miami officially said that Hoyos would take charge for the upcoming games, and the new coach insists he remains at the club’s service.<\/p>\n

“I am at the club’s service, and that means today I’m in a different situation. A couple of days ago, I was in a different role, and I’m here for whatever the club needs. In this case, we’re on the front line, as we like to say,” Hoyos said during a news conference on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

“Friendship is not negotiated. There is a friendship there, one that has spanned various years, and one that we share with many players because we have worked together in different countries.<\/p>\n

“Yet, that friendship does not mean that we can be right on top of him, constantly hovering over him, every single day.<\/p>\n

“I believe that everything must be respected: his privacy, and everything else. One must exercise great prudence, and, above all, proceed quietly, while striving to grow and evolve within this dynamic; for, naturally, all of this is new, and being alongside the greatest player in history is truly an extraordinary experience on the pitch. I am grateful, deeply grateful.”<\/p>\n

Mascherano made his departure official on Tuesday afternoon, confirming he would step down as manager due to “personal reasons.”<\/p>\n

A source told ESPN that he communicated the decision to Inter Miami over the weekend, following the 2-2 draw against the New York Red Bulls.<\/p>\n

Guillermo Hoyos is the new head coach of Inter Miami.\u00a0AP Photo\/Chris Arjoon<\/p>\n

Hoyos later revealed that a member of the front office informed him that he would be taking over the role of interim coach.<\/p>\n

“It was communicated to me, in part, by the sporting director department, a body that also consists of various members, and one of them was the one who informed me,” he said.<\/p>\n

Inter Miami returns to action on Saturday when traveling to face the Colorado Rapids<\/a> at Empower Field at Mile High Stadium.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New Inter Miami CF interim head coach Guillermo Hoyos insists he’s grateful to be working alongside Lionel Messi…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":236707,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124],"class_list":["post-236706","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\/236706","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=236706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236706\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/236707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}