On the grass, Messi He exceeded expectations by transforming the then last placed team in the league into champion of the Leagues Cup, a joint tournament with the Mexican league in which he was top scorer and MVP (Most Valuable Player).
Inter looked like a practically unbeatable team when they had the Argentine star and his Spanish guards Sergio Busquets and Jordi Alba on the pitch, but the injuries they suffered later prevented Inter from qualifying for the playoffs.
Doubts about the physical condition of this group of veterans, which was joined this year the Uruguayan Luis Suárez, They are Inter’s biggest challenge in the fight for their first crown of the season. MLS.
Messi, 36 years old, Suárez (37) and Busquets (35) They have already suffered physical problems during the preseason, in which Inter left a worrying image with just one victory in seven games.
Inter will host Real Salt Lake at its stadium on Wednesday in the opening match of the 29th MLS season, in which Colombian striker Juan Camilo “Cucho” Hernández’s Columbus Crew will be the defending champions.
In addition to Suarez, who moved to Miami from the Brazilian Gremio, the other big name recruited by the North American league is the goalkeeper Hugo Lloris, captain of the 2018 World Cup-winning French team.
Lloris, 37, left Tottenham Hotspur to defend the goal of Los Angeles FC (LAFC), MLS champion in 2022 and finalist last year.
LAFC maintains in its ranks the Gabonese striker Denis Bouanga, Golden Boot of the last championship, but said goodbye to the Italian Giorgio Chiellini and could also live its first season without the Mexican Carlos Vela, who has not yet renewed his contract.
The other great Mexican reference in the MLS, Javier ‘Chicharito’ Hernandezended his period as leader of Los Angeles Galaxy, the last franchise to retain the MLS title between 2011 and 2012.
The Galaxy, which has not reached the final for a decade, still has the Spanish midfielder Riqui Puig and he bet heavily on the young Brazilian Gabriel Pec, for whom he paid around 10 million dollars to Vasco da Gama.
The winger joins other South American pearls that shine in the MLS such as Thiago Almada, world champion with Argentina in Qatar-2022, who remains at Atlanta United or his compatriot Luciano Acosta (FC Cincinnati), current MVP of the tournament.
So is the Uruguayan international Facundo Torres, from Orlando City, who will have a new offensive partner in the veteran Luis Muriel.
The Colombian striker, who left Italian side Atalanta after five years, joins a saga of illustrious names who wore the uniform of the Florida franchise, such as Kaká and Nani.
The 26 American teams and the three Canadian MLS teams will compete in a regular phase that ends on October 9 and will stop again for the Leagues Cup, which will be played from July 26 to August 25.
The playoff ties will lead to the single-game final on December 7.
MLS is set to start with substitute referees due to the failure of negotiations with the league’s official union of judges.
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