{"id":77207,"date":"2025-12-09T17:17:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T17:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/77207\/"},"modified":"2025-12-09T17:17:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T17:17:09","slug":"inter-miamis-lionel-messi-repeats-as-landon-donovan-mls-mvp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/77207\/","title":{"rendered":"Inter Miami&#8217;s Lionel Messi repeats as Landon Donovan MLS MVP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 2025 MLS Golden Boot presented by Audi <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\">winner<\/a> led the league with 29g\/19a in 28 matches, surpassing the 20g\/16a he produced during his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/news\/inter-miami-s-lionel-messi-named-2024-landon-donovan-mls-mvp\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">2024 MVP-winning campaign<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Messi&#8217;s 48 regular-season goal contributions were the second most in MLS history, one behind Carlos Vela&#8217;s record set with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/clubs\/los-angeles-football-club\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">LAFC<\/a> in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>The Argentine legend also set an MLS record with at least three goal contributions in nine consecutive matches and 10 multi-goal goals in a single season. He became the first player in league history to record at least 36 goal contributions multiple times (2024, &#8217;25).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 2025 MLS Golden Boot presented by Audi winner led the league with 29g\/19a in 28 matches, surpassing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":77208,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[5429,43453,1660,123,125,124,10369,4959],"class_list":["post-77207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-inter-miami-cf","tag-landon-donovan-mls-mvp","tag-lionel-messi","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news","tag-mls-league-awards","tag-sendtonews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77207","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=77207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77207\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}