2023-08-20 09:27:22
And suddenly, on a Saturday in August at ten thirty at night, in the winter of Argentina and the summer of the United States, millions of people were looking for a window in Fútbol Libre, in Red Directa or in places that we were completely unaware of. to see Messi. To see him play a final with the pink shirt that boys and girls wear in the country and sell the blankets in all cities: Inter Miami. It is impossible to measure the rating, but some portal or some company may measure the extraordinary audience that this meeting had in Argentina. It was not about the World Cup in Qatar, not even the French Cup or the Copa del Rey, but the Leagues Cup, a tournament that does not matter to us in the slightest. But Messi, Messi’s time, is that: the discovery of what is foreign, the enhancement of what is underestimated, the search for excuses to be surprised, to see him play football for a little while longer and do what he likes the most: the impossible. .
And so it was, once again. In the country of the show and the stridency, of the stories that seek in soccer what they find in American football, Messi gives away art. They are brushstrokes of art, a little while, a play, a dribble or a great goal –another– like the one last night, with the trademark of his career: running from right to left and hitting it with a swing so that the ball goes up, in the angle. A great goal, like almost all Messi scored in this brief but happy time in the United States with Inter Miami.
Because if the two years at Paris Saint Germain were a burden, the chronic dissatisfaction of this time synthesized in a team full of stars and Qatari petrodollars that could not meet the goal set, these weeks in Miami -its debut was less than a month– are the opposite: there are also millions of dollars, but above all there is a happy and full Messi. Reflect that in every game. Last night with the goal and with the shot that he hit the post, almost towards the end, after Nashville – deservedly – tied the final with a cross that led to a carom. Nashville plays well: it is a team that touches, advances and proposes. It is a team, and with that it overturns the Argentine prejudice about the quality of Major League Soccer. They deserved to win the final, although in the last play, the Ecuadorian Campana had the chance to give Inter the Cup. He defined so badly that it was hard to understand what he had intended. Everything was defined by penalties in a very long definition (10-9). Messi suffered, made gestures that will be memes and hugged. As in the Qatar final, happiness was his. And also from us.
Leo numbers
◆ With the one he scored last night, Messi scored 10 goals in 7 games he played in the Inter Miami pink jersey.
◆ When Leo arrived, David Beckham’s club were at the bottom of the table and had gone 11 games without a win in MLS.
◆ Accompanied by Sergio Busquets and Jordi Alba, his former Barcelona partners, Messi made Inter’s attack the most fearsome of the championship, scoring 21 goals in six games.
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