{"id":218457,"date":"2025-10-12T05:45:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-12T05:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/218457\/"},"modified":"2025-10-12T05:45:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-12T05:45:09","slug":"lionel-messi-inter-miami-legend-takes-golden-boot-lead-adds-another-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/218457\/","title":{"rendered":"Lionel Messi! Inter Miami legend takes Golden Boot lead + adds ANOTHER record"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Messi\u2019s two goals now give him 26 on the season, two more than <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/clubs\/los-angeles-football-club\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">LAFC<\/a> talisman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/players\/denis-bouanga\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Denis Bouanga<\/a> in the Golden Boot chase. Messi, who is the favorite to become the first back-to-back winner of the Landon Donovan MLS MVP, now has 44 goal contributions on the season, five shy of the single-season record by LAFC\u2019s Carlos Vela set in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>The Herons, who clinched homefield advantage in Round One of the Audi MLS Cup Playoffs, close out the regular season at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/clubs\/nashville-sc\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nashville SC<\/a> next Saturday (6 pm ET | <a href=\"https:\/\/tv.apple.com\/us\/sporting-event\/nashville-sc-vs-inter-miami-cf\/umc.cse.7ay4v3d9jhcmdmx3u4ke6n6hm?itsct=tv_box_link&amp;itscg=30200&amp;mttnsubad=umc.cse.7ay4v3d9jhcmdmx3u4ke6n6hm\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">MLS Season Pass<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Messi\u2019s two goals now give him 26 on the season, two more than LAFC talisman Denis Bouanga in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":218458,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[6866,6865,6864,123081,6868,99],"class_list":["post-218457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-inter-miami-cf","tag-lionel-messi","tag-match-reaction","tag-miavsatl-10-11-2025","tag-sendtonews","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218457\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/218458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}