{"id":423079,"date":"2026-10-09T08:44:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-09T08:44:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/423079\/"},"modified":"2026-10-09T08:44:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-09T08:44:10","slug":"lionel-messi-returns-to-inter-miami-training-as-argentine-icon-shifts-focus-to-mls-playoff-push-following-emotional-national-team-farewell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/423079\/","title":{"rendered":"Lionel Messi returns to Inter Miami training as Argentine icon shifts focus to MLS playoff push following emotional national team farewell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>That exceptional attacking output provides the platform for Miami&#8217;s playoff push during the final stretch of the regular campaign. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goal.com\/en\/team\/inter-miami-cf\/table\/7a7uyvix8axi28h7d3bwl4tbe\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-affiliate-type=\"NONE\">Currently third<\/a> on 46 points from 27 outings, the Herons remain level with second-placed New England while seeking to chip away at Nashville&#8217;s commanding 14-point cushion. A top-seven finish over the remaining seven fixtures would guarantee Gonzalez&#8217;s side direct qualification to the Best-of-3 series, sparing them a precarious wild-card fixture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"That exceptional attacking output provides the platform for Miami&#8217;s playoff push during the final stretch of the regular&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":423080,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[4101,166859,166857,17147,64890,5429,166858,10133,8003,123,125,124],"class_list":["post-423079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-argentina","tag-argentina-vs-benin","tag-benin","tag-dc-united","tag-friendlies","tag-inter-miami-cf","tag-inter-miami-cf-vs-dc-united","tag-l-messi","tag-major-league-soccer","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423079","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=423079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423079\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/423080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=423079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=423079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=423079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}