{"id":235852,"date":"2025-10-19T07:52:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-19T07:52:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/235852\/"},"modified":"2025-10-19T07:52:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-19T07:52:07","slug":"inter-miamis-lionel-messi-wins-2025-mls-golden-boot-presented-by-audi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/235852\/","title":{"rendered":"Inter Miami&#8217;s Lionel Messi wins 2025 MLS Golden Boot presented by Audi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The iconic No. 10 tallied 3g\/1a during Saturday&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/competitions\/mls-regular-season\/2025\/matches\/nshvsmia-10-18-2025\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">5-2 Decision Day victory<\/a> at Nashville, giving him 48 goal contributions this year \u2013 narrowly shy of Carlos Vela&#8217;s MLS-record 49 for LAFC in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>Now, Messi looks poised to become the league&#8217;s first-ever back-to-back Landon Donovan MLS MVP winner, following a historic 2024 campaign that helped Miami claim that year&#8217;s Supporters&#8217; Shield in record-breaking fashion.<\/p>\n<p>Messi and Miami are the Eastern Conference No. 3 seed in the Audi 2025 MLS Cup Playoffs, where they&#8217;ll face No. 6 Nashville in a Round One Best-of-3 Series. This year&#8217;s MLS Cup champion will be crowned on Dec. 6.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The iconic No. 10 tallied 3g\/1a during Saturday&#8217;s 5-2 Decision Day victory at Nashville, giving him 48 goal&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":235853,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[130680,6866,47891,6865,130681,130682,99],"class_list":["post-235852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-golden-boot","tag-inter-miami-cf","tag-league-club-news","tag-lionel-messi","tag-mls-league-awards","tag-nshvsmia-10-18-2025","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235852","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=235852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235852\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/235853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}