The fans are confident that his signing will give the club the push it needs
Since hours before his arrival, flares and posters anticipated the presentation
The surroundings of the Inter Miami stadium were a party this Sunday to the sound of drums, songs and music by loudspeakers, led by excited fans of the MLS club and especially of the Argentine star Lionel Messiwhose presentation was suspended for a few hours due to a thunderstorm.
Before the downpours and thunder struck, the parking lots outside the DRV PNK Stadium, in Fort Lauderdale (about 35 km north of Miami), They concentrated hundreds of fervorized people.
Many of them danced to the sound of drums and songs, others were shooting flares or holding signs honoring the player hours before that the official presentation of the captain of the albiceleste will begin and under inclement heat.
Practically everyone celebrated the conviction that the arrival of the current world champion with Argentina will be the key for the Major League Soccer (MLS) club is finally at the top of the table and reap important victories.
“I think it’s going to get better, we’re talking about the best player in the world,” Cuban Dayan Serrano, a follower of Messi since the footballer started at FC Barcelona, told EFE Agency and whose fanaticism is confirmed by a tattoo of the Argentine on his leg.
MESSI IS ALREADY IN THE STADIUM FOR HIS PRESENTATION
La Pulga arrived at the Inter Miami field accompanied by his family. pic.twitter.com/CjnBuLTffq
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Anchored in the last position of the Eastern Conference, Inter Miami is recording what is perhaps the worst season in its short history in MLS (he made his debut in March 2020), and the club’s fans are clear that even the league at the end of the season is a very distant goal for this year, even with Messi.
“I think that next season is when we are really going to see the improvements”said Serrano, who highlighted not only the differential advantage of the Argentine but also the one that another brand-new contract will grant, such as the Spanish midfielder Sergio Busquets, whose signing the club confirmed this Sunday.
After his departure from French PSG, Messi rejected a millionaire offer from the Arab league and he chose to start his new professional career in the American league at the hands of the South Florida club, owned by the businessman of Cuban origin Jorge Mas and the former English soccer player david beckham.
The Argentine will be linked to the club for the next two and a half yearstime in which he will receive a salary of up to 150 million dollars, apart from other income derived from royalties from Apple, which has the rights to broadcast MLS matches, according to US sports media reports.
After making his career in Europe, the winner of seven Ballon d’Or falls to a different league, more physical and less tacticalHowever, his followers believe that he will adapt without problems.
“It’s another league, but he is the star of soccer, he adapts to everything, he is going to throw the team on his shoulder and everyone is going to accommodate him to get the team forward”Honduran Jeffry González, who approached the stadium with his wife and two daughters from early hours with their tickets in hand, predicted in statements to EFE.
With a capacity of 22,000 spectators, Increased from 19,000, the DRV PNK Stadium has been hanging the “sold out” sign for Messi’s presentation ceremony for weeks and resale tickets have reached four-digit figures.
Meanwhile, Messi and family have begun to make life in their new cityas proven by the images that have circulated profusely on social networks and in which he appears with his wife Antonela Roccuzzo and their three children shopping at a popular Florida supermarket chain.
“The Unveil”, whose start was suspended by a powerful electrical storm, has scheduled performances by singers Camilo and Ozunaas well as Tiago PZK and Paulo Londra, and at the end the Argentine entered the center of the stadium, dressed for the first time in the club’s official clothing, characteristically pink.