{"id":439856,"date":"2023-07-15T14:53:20","date_gmt":"2023-07-15T18:53:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=439856"},"modified":"2023-07-15T14:53:20","modified_gmt":"2023-07-15T18:53:20","slug":"inter-miami-officially-sign-lionel-messi","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/inter-miami-officially-sign-lionel-messi\/","title":{"rendered":"Inter Miami officially sign Lionel Messi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Inter Miami have officially announced the signing of soccer superstar Lionel Messi in a deal, worth $60m-a-year.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The \ud83d\udc10 is officially here.<\/p>\n<p>Welcome to MLS, Lionel Messi. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Mt88hk0Cjg\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/Mt88hk0Cjg<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Major League Soccer (@MLS) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MLS\/status\/1680279910537998336?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">July 15, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The contract will keep Messi at the MLS club until the 2025 season, following his departure from PSG last month.<\/p>\n<p>The inclusion of the Argentinian is a huge boost for David Beckham-led team as his presence is expected to skyrocket soccer popularity not only in the city, but the whole country.<\/p>\n<p>Messi announced that he will be joining the MLS a month ago, but only now the deal was made official.<\/p>\n<p>The 7-time Ballon d&#8217;Or winner is expected to make his debut on July 21 as he will be joined by former long-time Barcelona colleague Sergio Busquets, who also headed to Miami.<\/p>\n<p>The team currently sits at the bottom of the MLS, 11 points adrift from a playoff spot and they strongly believe their fortunes will turn around once Messi arrives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inter Miami have officially announced the signing of soccer superstar Lionel Messi in a deal, worth $60m-a-year. The \ud83d\udc10 is officially here. Welcome [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":439857,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17501,17909],"news_category":[17676,14235],"gn_keywords":[18156,17910],"acf":{"announce":"The Argentinian will earn $60m-a-year","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/439856"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=439856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/439856\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/439857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=439856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=439856"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=439856"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=439856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}