{"id":239879,"date":"2026-04-21T03:42:22","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T03:42:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/239879\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T03:42:22","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T03:42:22","slug":"messi-named-to-mls-team-of-the-matchday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/239879\/","title":{"rendered":"Messi Named to MLS Team of the Matchday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Inter Miami CF captain Leo Messi has been named to the Major League Soccer (MLS) Team of the Matchday presented by Audi for week 8 of the 2026 regular season. The Argentine maestro earns TOTM honors after his instrumental role in Inter Miami\u2019s 2-3 win on the road over Colorado Rapids on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Messi secures a fourth TOTM selection this regular season after bagging a brace to power Inter Miami to victory at a packed Empower Field at Mile High in Denver, Colorado with 75,824 &#8211; the second highest attendance in MLS history. Our captain first opened the scoring from the penalty spot in the 18th minute of play, before scoring our winning-goal in spectacular fashion in the 80th minute.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Inter Miami CF captain Leo Messi has been named to the Major League Soccer (MLS) Team of the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":239880,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1660,123,125,124,5692,83167],"class_list":{"0":"post-239879","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-miami","8":"tag-lionel-messi","9":"tag-miami","10":"tag-miami-headlines","11":"tag-miami-news","12":"tag-mls","13":"tag-team-of-the-matchday"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239879","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=239879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239879\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/239880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}