The Main League Soccer season is underway, however followers within the Miami space involved in seeing Lionel Messi play in particular person in 2024 could already be out of luck. Inter Miami has bought out all of its 2024 dwelling video games on the power of the Argentine’s international attraction.
The Argentina Soccer Federation has thrown them a lifeline. The federation introduced this week that the Argentinian nationwide workforce — that includes Atlanta United star Thiago Almada and Messi — had scheduled two new video games in the USA in June.
Argentina will play Ecuador at Chicago’s Soldier Subject earlier than taking up Guatemala at Washington D.C.’s FedEx Subject.
Each video games are supposed as “warm-ups” for Argentina’s Copa America run in June. The Copa — the South American championship and one of many world’s longest-running soccer tournaments — will happen in the USA this summer season. Argentina enters the occasion as defending champions following its victory over Brazil in 2021.
Argentina’s new friendlies towards Ecuador and Guatemala aren’t its solely U. S. fixtures this yr. The workforce lately introduced that its March matches towards El Salvador and Nigeria — initially scheduled in China — would transfer to the USA.