
{"id":455393,"date":"2023-08-18T08:16:05","date_gmt":"2023-08-18T04:16:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=455393"},"modified":"2023-08-18T08:16:05","modified_gmt":"2023-08-18T04:16:05","slug":"messi-says-he-made-the-right-choice-coming-to-inter-miami","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/messi-says-he-made-the-right-choice-coming-to-inter-miami\/","title":{"rendered":"Messi says he made the right choice coming to Inter Miami"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lionel Messi spoke publicly for the first time since joining Inter Miami. The Argentine already played some games in the pink shirt and looks like he is hitting a good form, scoring 9 goals in 6 games.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFrom the beginning, from my arrival, it\u2019s been an impressive welcome that we\u2019ve received,\u201d Messi said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday I can tell you that I am very happy with the decision we made,\u201d Messi said at Miami\u2019s DRV PNK Stadium. The interest in his press conference was so big that some reporters had to sit on the floor.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMe going to Paris was neither planned nor desired,\u201d Messi said. \u201cI did not want to leave Barcelona, and it became difficult. But it is the opposite of what is happening to me now, thanks to God.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He was asked about the possibility to win another Ballon d&#8217;Or after his World Cup triumph with Argentine in Qatar last year. &#8220;You can imagine that after winning the World Cup, which was the only thing I was missing, I\u2019m much less thinking about the Ballon d\u2019Or.<\/p>\n<p>The World Cup was my biggest prize, now I am enjoying the moment and honestly I don\u2019t think about it. If I win it, nice, and if I don\u2019t then nothing happens.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Lionel Messi on potentially winning an eighth Ballon d\u2019Or:<\/p>\n<p>\u2018You can imagine that after winning the World Cup, which was the only thing I was missing, I\u2019m much less thinking about the Ballon d\u2019Or.<\/p>\n<p>The World Cup was my biggest prize, now I am enjoying the moment and honestly I\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/u6rt2FWBs4\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/u6rt2FWBs4<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 B\/R Football (@brfootball) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/brfootball\/status\/1692276277904834656?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">August 17, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Since Messi\u2019s announcement, Inter Miami hired former Barcelona and Argentina national team coach Gerardo \u201cTata\u201d Martino and signed former Barcelona captain Sergio Busquets and veteran defender Jordi Alba.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Messi on his superhero celebrations:<\/p>\n<p>\u2018My three kids are still on vacation and haven&#8217;t started school yet, so every night we watch superhero movies.<\/p>\n<p>They came up with the idea and told me that whenever I have a game and score a goal, I do a superhero celebration.<\/p>\n<p>But I only do\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/4xlvQbAQsm\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/4xlvQbAQsm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 B\/R Football (@brfootball) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/brfootball\/status\/1692307443244548117?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">August 17, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lionel Messi spoke publicly for the first time since joining Inter Miami. The Argentine already played some games in the pink shirt and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":455400,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17501,17909],"news_category":[17676,14235,16715],"gn_keywords":[18156,17910],"acf":{"announce":"\u201cMe going to Paris was neither planned nor desired,\u201d he revealed","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\/455393"}],"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\/137"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=455393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/455393\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/455400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=455393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=455393"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=455393"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=455393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}