Hoyos took over after head coach Javier Mascherano resigned for personal reasons on 14 April, several weeks after the club crashed out of the Concacaf Champions Cup on aggregate to Nashville SC in the last 16. Hoyos was previously an assistant coach with the club after being initially hired as the head of methodology for the club\u2019s academy. It is not yet known if he will remain with the club after his stint as interim manager.<\/p>\n
skip past newsletter promotion<\/a>Free newsletter | Twice weekly<\/p>\n Sign up to Soccer Desk<\/p>\n Jonathan Wilson and Guardian journalists bring expert analysis and reporting on the biggest stories in soccer.<\/p>\n after newsletter promotion<\/p>\n Inter Miami have been in bad form since returning from MLS\u2019s World Cup break, winning three times in nine games, with the most recent victory coming on 5 August in the Leagues Cup against Atl\u00e9tico San Luis. The Herons were eliminated from that competition in the group stage on 12 August with a 3-2 loss to Le\u00f3n, which was followed by a 4-1 drubbing in MLS league play at the hands of Nashville SC. They are now riding a five-match winless run, with the final four of those results coming with Lionel Messi on the field, having returned after the death of his father, Jorge<\/a>.<\/p>\n Hoyos has a long history with Messi. He is credited by some with discovering the player as coach of a Barcelona youth squad in the early 2000s. Gonz\u00e1lez does not have nearly the same level of direct history with Messi, but he does hail from Rosario, Messi\u2019s home town. Their playing careers overlapped, but only barely: the final two of Gonz\u00e1lez\u2019s 56 appearances with Argentina came in World Cup 2006 qualifiers against Uruguay and Peru in 2005; Messi also played in those games, earning his third and fourth caps. The two only shared the field in the first game against Peru; against Uruguay, Messi came on as a sub for Gonz\u00e1lez in the second half.<\/p>\n Since moving into management, Gonz\u00e1lez has taken charge of Argentine clubs Rosario Central from 2020 to 2022, Uni\u00f3n from 2023 to 2025 and most recently Platense for 14 games last year. He has lost more games than he has won at every stop, and owns a career win percentage of 32.5%.<\/p>\n Inter Miami currently trail Nashville by 10 points in the Eastern Conference standings, sitting third in the Supporters\u2019 Shield table behind the Tennessee side and the Western Conference-leading Vancouver Whitecaps. The club won MLS Cup<\/a> last season and were favorites to defend their title this year, particularly after adding wide defender Sergio Reguil\u00f3n, 2025 MLS goalkeeper of the year Dayne St Clair, Monterrey striker Germ\u00e1n Berterame and the post-World Cup addition of Brazilian midfielder Casemiro.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Inter Miami have hired former Argentina international Cristian \u201cKily\u201d Gonz\u00e1lez as the club\u2019s new head coach, according to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":383116,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124],"class_list":["post-383115","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\/383115","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=383115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383115\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/383116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=383115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=383115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=383115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/500.jpg\")
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