He Inter Miami of the MLS trained this Tuesday for the first time on the grass of the BBVA stadium in Monterrey, with Lionel Messi on the field, prior to this Wednesday’s game against the Striped Mexicans in the quarterfinals of the Concacaf Champions Cup.
Messi, world champion in Qatar 2022, is preparing to play his first official match in Mexico, before he played a couple of friendly duels in 2011 in Mexico City and Cancun, and in 2006 he was part of the FC Barcelona that also traveled to Monterrey to face the Tigres UANL, but that time he remained on the substitute bench.
Now, the former FC Barcelona player aims to start this Wednesday’s duel, the second leg of the series between Monterrey and Inter, in which the Rayados are up 1-2 by winning the duel by that score. gone in Miami.
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The Argentine is doubtful to see minutes tomorrow against the Rayados, since he only played his first game last Saturday, after recovering from a muscle injury that kept him off the field for much of March.
“It’s okay, it felt good to have played 45 minutes at the weekend, but we still have training today and then we’ll see. It seems that the injury is behind us, our season is just beginning and we must have healthy players,” explained Argentine Gerardo Martino, Miami coach, prior to the Champions Cup duel.
Columbus Crew hopes in the semis
In addition to Messi, Martino will try to overcome the series at the BBVA stadium, which in 2026 will be one of the three World Cup venues in Mexico, with its other figures, the Uruguayan Luis Suárez and the Catalans Jordi Alba and Sergio Busquets.
The four, former Barcelona players, carried out training this Tuesday, in which they did some physical exercises and with the ball, but above all it helped them to recognize the field. The winner of this series will face Columbus Crew, who eliminated Tigres, in the Champions Cup semifinals.
