{"id":401687,"date":"2026-09-16T17:34:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T17:34:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/401687\/"},"modified":"2026-09-16T17:34:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T17:34:11","slug":"inter-miami-to-face-off-against-cruz-azul-in-2026-campeones-cup-nbc-6-south-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/401687\/","title":{"rendered":"Inter Miami to face off against Cruz Azul in 2026 Campeones Cup \u2013 NBC 6 South Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lionel Messi and Inter Miami FC are set to face off against Mexico City&#8217;s Cruz Azul on Wednesday in the 2026 Michelob ULTRA Campeones Cup.<\/p>\n<p>The match will take place at Nu Stadium in Miami, and the kickoff starts at 8 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>What is the Campeones Cup?<\/p>\n<p>The Campeones Cup started in 2018 and is another venue that has pitted Major League Soccer against Mexico&#8217;s LIGA MX.<\/p>\n<p>This year&#8217;s Campeones Cup is between reigning MLS Cup champion Inter Miami CF and the reigning LIGA MX champion.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The two teams previously faced off in 2023, when Messi scored a free kick to break a 1-1 tie.<\/p>\n<p>Tickets and parking passes for Wednesday&#8217;s game are available for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.intermiamicf.com\/news\/match-preview-inter-miami-cf-hosts-cruz-azul-the-2026-michelob-ultra-campeones-cup\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.intermiamicf.com\/news\/match-preview-inter-miami-cf-hosts-cruz-azul-the-2026-michelob-ultra-campeones-cup\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">purchase<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lionel Messi and Inter Miami FC are set to face off against Mexico City&#8217;s Cruz Azul on Wednesday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":401688,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[10073,123,125,124],"class_list":["post-401687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-inter-miami","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401687","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=401687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401687\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/401688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=401687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=401687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=401687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}