{"id":366678,"date":"2026-08-09T06:00:19","date_gmt":"2026-08-09T06:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/366678\/"},"modified":"2026-08-09T06:00:19","modified_gmt":"2026-08-09T06:00:19","slug":"de-paul-miami-honor-messi-on-emotional-leagues-cup-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/366678\/","title":{"rendered":"De Paul & Miami honor Messi on emotional Leagues Cup night"},"content":{"rendered":"

De Paul struck a beautiful long-range shot in the 32nd minute to give Miami the lead in their Leagues Cup<\/a> match against\u00a0LIGA MX powerhouse Monterrey.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Upon scoring, the midfielder took off his jersey to reveal a Messi kit underneath his own before pointing at the No. 10 on his back.<\/p>\n

The touching gesture came hours after it was announced that Messi’s father, Jorge Messi, passed away on Saturday at age 68 in Rosario, Argentina.\u00a0<\/p>\n

De Paul, who won the 2022 FIFA World Cup<\/a> and reached the 2026 World Cup final this summer with Messi, is a long-time friend of the eight-time Ballon d’Or winner. Both players reunited at Inter Miami in July of last year when the Herons acquired De Paul from LaLiga side Atl\u00e9tico Madrid.\u00a0<\/p>\n

De Paul and the rest of the Miami squad wore black armbands in honor of Jorge Messi.<\/p>\n

\n Leagues Cup outlook<\/p>\n

Monterrey would go on to rally for a 2-1 win<\/a> on goals from two MLS alums: former Chicago Fire FC<\/a> striker Hugo Cuypers, and ex-LAFC<\/a> and Columbus Crew<\/a> standout Diego Rossi.\u00a0<\/p>\n

With the loss, Miami face an uphill climb to reach the knockout stage, despite a convincing 4-2 midweek win<\/a> over Atl\u00e9tico San Luis in their tournament opener. Only the fop four teams per league table advance to the quarterfinals.<\/p>\n

The Herons will host Club Le\u00f3n on Wednesday in their Phase One finale (7:30 pm ET | Apple TV<\/a>).\u00a0<\/p>\n

Messi’s status for the match is unknown. He is reportedly home<\/a> in Argentina with his family.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"De Paul struck a beautiful long-range shot in the 32nd minute to give Miami the lead in their…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":366679,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[5429,84956,16163,123,125,124,148349,76891,4959],"class_list":["post-366678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-inter-miami-cf","tag-leagues-cup","tag-match-reaction","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news","tag-miavsmty-08-08-2026","tag-priority-match","tag-sendtonews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366678","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=366678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366678\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/366679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=366678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=366678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=366678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}