{"id":502717,"date":"2025-10-17T13:21:17","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T17:21:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=502717"},"modified":"2025-10-17T13:21:17","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T17:21:17","slug":"messi-is-aiming-at-golden-boot-trophy-as-he-is-fit-to-play-against-nashville","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/messi-is-aiming-at-golden-boot-trophy-as-he-is-fit-to-play-against-nashville\/","title":{"rendered":"Messi is aiming at Golden Boot trophy as he is fit to play against Nashville"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Inter Miami head coach Javier Mascherano has confirmed that Lionel Messi will be available for the club\u2019s final MLS regular-season match against Nashville SC on Saturday, as the captain looks to secure his first Golden Boot in the league.<\/p>\n<p>Messi returned to Miami earlier this week after featuring for Argentina against Puerto Rico at Chase Stadium on Tuesday night. Despite the quick turnaround, Mascherano assured that both Messi and Rodrigo De Paul are in good shape.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYesterday they trained with us and did a good part of it. Today they will train with us completely,\u201d Mascherano said. \u201cBeyond playing on Tuesday, Messi played for us on Saturday and De Paul didn\u2019t play too many minutes against Venezuela, so this wasn\u2019t an international window of too much wear. They played here, they could rest, they didn\u2019t travel. Normally, when you have four days between games, you can arrive with rest and in good conditions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Inter Miami coach added that \u201calmost everyone is available\u201d for the decisive match, with only David Ruiz and Allen Obando remaining sidelined through injury.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">25 goals on the season. \ud83d\udc40<\/p>\n<p>Messi is the new Golden Boot pres. by <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Audi?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@Audi<\/a> leader. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/0n8HY4HrXZ\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/0n8HY4HrXZ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Major League Soccer (@MLS) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MLS\/status\/1977174174709039468?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">October 12, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Saturday\u2019s encounter carries high stakes for both Messi and the team. The Argentine enters the match leading the Golden Boot race with 26 goals, narrowly ahead of LAFC\u2019s Denis Bouanga, who has 24. A win over Nashville would not only help Messi secure the top scorer title but could also ensure home-field advantage for Inter Miami in the upcoming playoffs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inter Miami head coach Javier Mascherano has confirmed that Lionel Messi will be available for the club\u2019s final MLS regular-season match against Nashville [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":502718,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17501,17909,17528,17908],"news_category":[17676,14235,16715],"gn_keywords":[18156,17910,18688,714],"acf":{"news_source":"","link_picture":"","announce":"Inter Miami head coach Javier Mascherano confirmed his Argentine superstar is ready to play despite coming back from international duty","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\/502717"}],"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=502717"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/502717\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":502719,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/502717\/revisions\/502719"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/502718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=502717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=502717"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=502717"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=502717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}