{"id":243022,"date":"2026-04-23T09:39:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T09:39:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/243022\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T09:39:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T09:39:11","slug":"rodrigo-de-paul-makes-world-cup-statement-with-inter-miami-golazo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/243022\/","title":{"rendered":"Rodrigo De Paul makes World Cup statement with Inter Miami golazo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/clubs\/inter-miami-cf\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Inter Miami CF<\/a>&#8216;s Argentine midfielder sparked his team to an important road victory over\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/clubs\/real-salt-lake\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Real Salt Lake<\/a> at America First Field on Wednesday, blasting in an 82nd-minute game-winner.<\/p>\n<p>Since being dropped from the starting lineup for each of Argentina\u2019s two March friendlies, De Paul is on a strong run of form, tallying three assists in his last two matches.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, he added a screamer to that collection, making a major statement to Argentina manager Lionel Scaloni about his potential inclusion for the 2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/competitions\/fifa-world-cup\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">FIFA World Cup<\/a> 50 days from now.<\/p>\n<p>\n      Finding form<\/p>\n<p>De Paul was a sensation following last summer&#8217;s blockbuster arrival from Atl\u00e9tico Madrid, embarking on a great second half of the season that concluded with scoring the winning goal in MLS Cup presented by Audi. He started slow in 2026, but is finally finding a rhythm in midfield.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the goal, the 31-year-old had an all-around excellent shift, keeping RSL\u2019s multi-pronged attack quiet.<\/p>\n<p>Miami\u2019s patience in the Utah altitude was rewarded with a late surge that saw De Paul give them the lead, before\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/players\/luis-suarez\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Luis Su\u00e1rez<\/a> added a late dagger with his second goal of 2026.<\/p>\n<p>With the reveal of Scaloni\u2019s World Cup roster just a few weeks away, it\u2019s the right moment for the Argentine hopeful to impress in MLS. With De Paul hoping to once again play a starring role for La Albiceleste on the world\u2019s biggest stage, he is trending in the right direction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Inter Miami CF&#8216;s Argentine midfielder sparked his team to an important road victory over\u00a0Real Salt Lake at America&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":243023,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[5429,16163,123,125,124,76891,27823,106061,4959],"class_list":{"0":"post-243022","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-miami","8":"tag-inter-miami-cf","9":"tag-match-reaction","10":"tag-miami","11":"tag-miami-headlines","12":"tag-miami-news","13":"tag-priority-match","14":"tag-rodrigo-de-paul","15":"tag-rslvsmia-04-22-2026","16":"tag-sendtonews"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243022","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=243022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243022\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/243023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}