{"id":74305,"date":"2025-12-07T09:50:29","date_gmt":"2025-12-07T09:50:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/74305\/"},"modified":"2025-12-07T09:50:29","modified_gmt":"2025-12-07T09:50:29","slug":"inter-miamis-lionel-messi-named-mls-cup-2025-mvp-pres-by-audi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/74305\/","title":{"rendered":"Inter Miami&#8217;s Lionel Messi named MLS Cup 2025 MVP pres. by Audi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The legendary Argentine No. 10 proved clutch in the second half, logging two assists in Saturday\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/competitions\/mls-cup-playoffs\/2025\/matches\/miavsvan-12-06-2025\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">3-1 win<\/a> over <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/clubs\/vancouver-whitecaps-fc\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Vancouver Whitecaps FC<\/a> at Chase Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>Messi\u2019s MVP showing capped a historic Audi 2025 MLS Cup Playoffs for the eight-time Ballon d&#8217;Or winner, in which he set a new single postseason record with 15 goal contributions (6g\/9a).<\/p>\n<p>Messi made additional history, along with Argentina teammate <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/players\/rodrigo-de-paul\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rodrigo De Paul<\/a> and Spain legend <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/players\/sergio-busquets\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sergio Busquets<\/a>, becoming the first <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/competitions\/fifa-world-cup\/2025\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">FIFA World Cup<\/a> winners to lift an MLS Cup. In the process, they got the best of Vancouver&#8217;s World Cup champion, German and Bayern Munich icon <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/players\/thomas-muller\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Thomas M\u00fcller<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Messi earned his third trophy with Miami since his transformational July 2023 arrival, adding MLS Cup to the club&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/competitions\/leagues-cup\/2024\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Leagues Cup<\/a> 2023 and 2024 Supporters&#8217; Shield triumphs. He&#8217;s now won 47 titles for club and country, extending his own world record.<\/p>\n<p>After recently signing a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/news\/lionel-messi-extends-inter-miami-contract-through-2028\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">contract extension<\/a> with the Herons through 2028, Messi will look to make more history in South Florida next season at the club&#8217;s new stadium, Miami Freedom Park.<\/p>\n<p>During the regular season, Messi won the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/news\/inter-miami-s-lionel-messi-wins-2025-mls-golden-boot-presented-by-audi\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">2025 MLS Golden Boot presented by Audi<\/a> with 29g\/19a. He&#8217;s favored to become the first back-to-back Landon Donovan MLS MVP winner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The legendary Argentine No. 10 proved clutch in the second half, logging two assists in Saturday\u2019s 3-1 win&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":74306,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[5429,1660,16163,123,125,124,39287,5426,4959],"class_list":{"0":"post-74305","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-miami","8":"tag-inter-miami-cf","9":"tag-lionel-messi","10":"tag-match-reaction","11":"tag-miami","12":"tag-miami-headlines","13":"tag-miami-news","14":"tag-miavsvan-12-06-2025","15":"tag-mls-cup-playoffs","16":"tag-sendtonews"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74305","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=74305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74305\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}