{"id":54960,"date":"2025-11-21T01:13:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T01:13:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/54960\/"},"modified":"2025-11-21T01:13:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T01:13:11","slug":"d-c-united-to-host-lionel-messi-inter-miami-at-mt-bank-stadium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/54960\/","title":{"rendered":"D.C. United to host Lionel Messi, Inter Miami at M&T Bank Stadium"},"content":{"rendered":"

D.C. United to host Lionel Messi, Inter Miami at M&T Bank Stadium in March, club announces<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\tUpdated: 6:39 PM EST Nov 20, 2025\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\tLionel Messi’s Inter Miami squad will play at M&T Bank Stadium against D.C. United in March, the club announced Thursday.The announcement comes amid an effort to grow the game of soccer in the United States.”As we look ahead to an incredible year for our sport with so much global attention on soccer in 2026, we’re excited to bring this matchup to a wider stage,” said Danita Johnson, president of business operations for D.C. United.The game won’t be the first time global soccer stars have stepped onto the field at M&T Bank Stadium in recent memory.In August 2024, Christian Pulisic and AC Milan took on Robert Lewandowski and FC Barcelona in a friendly \u2014 another attempt to grow the sport in the U.S.More than 51,000 fans attended the 2024 match.\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

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Lionel Messi’s Inter Miami squad will play at M&T Bank Stadium against D.C. United in March, the club announced Thursday.<\/p>\n

The announcement comes amid an effort to grow the game of soccer in the United States.<\/p>\n

“As we look ahead to an incredible year for our sport with so much global attention on soccer in 2026, we’re excited to bring this matchup to a wider stage,” said Danita Johnson, president of business operations for D.C. United.<\/p>\n

The game won’t be the first time global soccer stars have stepped onto the field at M&T Bank Stadium in recent memory.<\/p>\n

In August 2024, Christian Pulisic and AC Milan took on Robert Lewandowski and FC Barcelona<\/a> in a friendly \u2014 another attempt to grow the sport in the U.S.<\/p>\n

More than 51,000 fans attended the 2024 match.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"D.C. United to host Lionel Messi, Inter Miami at M&T Bank Stadium in March, club announces Updated: 6:39…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":54961,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[34258,34245,34257,27126,13984,22872,34246,916,10073,34247,34248,1660,34249,34256,14236,34250,123,125,124,34251,5242,34259,2062,34252,197,1284,34253,34254,34255],"class_list":["post-54960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-ac-milan","tag-baltimore-lionel-messi","tag-business-operation","tag-christian-pulisic","tag-club","tag-d-c","tag-d-c-united","tag-game","tag-inter-miami","tag-inter-miami-dc-united","tag-is-messi-in-baltimore","tag-lionel-messi","tag-lionel-messi-in-baltimore","tag-mt-bank-stadium","tag-messi","tag-messi-baltimore","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news","tag-mls-schedule","tag-president","tag-recent-memory","tag-soccer","tag-soccer-schedule","tag-sport","tag-thursday","tag-when-does-inter-miami-play-dc-united","tag-when-is-inter-miami-playing-dc-united","tag-when-is-inter-miami-playing-in-dc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54960","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=54960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54960\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}