{"id":283341,"date":"2026-05-25T05:01:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T05:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/283341\/"},"modified":"2026-05-25T05:01:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T05:01:10","slug":"lionel-messi-exits-inter-miamis-last-game-before-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/283341\/","title":{"rendered":"Lionel Messi exits Inter Miami’s last game before World Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Argentine superstar exited in the 73rd minute of Miami’s 6-4 win<\/a> over the Philadelphia Union<\/a> on Sunday, signaling to the bench before being removed for\u00a0Mateo Silvetti<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Upon leaving the rain-soaked pitch, Messi immediately went down the tunnel at Nu Stadium. Although Hoyos didn’t have a formal update post-game, he cautioned against worries of a serious injury.<\/p>\n

Nonetheless, Argentine and global soccer fans will track Messi’s status with bated breath. Just over three weeks remain until their World Cup opener on June 16 vs. Algeria.<\/p>\n

While Messi hasn’t formally declared he’ll participate in his record sixth World Cup, he’s expected to captain Lionel Scaloni’s side this summer alongside Inter Miami teammate Rodrigo De Paul<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Argentina enter this summer’s World Cup as defending champions. They’ll compete in Group J alongside Algeria, Austria (June 22) and Jordan (June 27).<\/p>\n

At the expanded 48-team World Cup, the top two teams per group advance to the knockout rounds \u2013 as do the top eight third-place finishers.<\/p>\n

Argentina are three-time World Cup champions, and Messi has a program-best 116 goals in 198 caps. He led them to the trophy at Qatar 2022, which ended with an epic penalty-shootout victory over France.<\/p>\n

Ahead of the World Cup, Messi has been on an incredible run of form for the reigning MLS Cup presented by Audi champions. He’s provided a league-best 20 goal contributions (12g\/8a) in 14 matches.<\/p>\n

The iconic No. 10 could become the first three-time Landon Donovan MLS MVP. He is second in the MLS Golden Boot presented by Audi hunt, an award he won<\/a> last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Argentine superstar exited in the 73rd minute of Miami’s 6-4 win over the Philadelphia Union on Sunday,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":283342,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[5429,1660,16163,123,125,124,119386,76891,4959],"class_list":["post-283341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-inter-miami-cf","tag-lionel-messi","tag-match-reaction","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news","tag-miavsphi-05-24-2026","tag-priority-match","tag-sendtonews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283341","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=283341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283341\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/283342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}