Source: MARCA
Monday 7 August 2023 16:56:20
Lionel Messi is considered the GOAT by many, however, even for his most loyal, the beginning of his career as a player of Inter Miami has surpassed their high expectations, and only the Argentinean star could have achieved what he did this Sunday in the victory in a series of penalty kicks against FC Dallas in the round of 16 of the Leagues Cup.
The captain of the Albiceleste national team that won the World Cup inQatar 2022, had come to less after returning from the Middle East, and the end of his career as a player of Paris Saint Germain, included booing and disrespect from the fans of the French capital, therefore, Messi decided to embark to a new place, when many thought, he would return to his beloved FC Barcelona, he surprised the whole world by announcing his signing for Inter Miami of the Major League Soccer.
And Messi's arrival to the Sunny State made South Florida and the rest of the United States surrender to his arrival because, in four games played with the team now coached by Gerardo 'Tata' Martino, Messi has scored a total of seven goals, the highest number in history for a debutant in an MLS team in that number of games.
As if this were not enough, the number of goals, having three consecutive braces in the three games in which he's started, in all of them he has scored his first goal before the 8th minute.