Inter Miami-Real Salt Lake, on MLS: what time does Lionel Messi play, how to see it live and probable lineups

THE MLS Its 2024 season begins this Wednesday with one team and one name above all: Lionel Messi’s Inter Miami. After his successful and memorable landing in Florida last summer, which caused a few months of fascinating ‘Messimanía’ across North America, The Argentine star is preparing to play his first full season in the United States in 2024.

Now you will not only have Sergio Busquets as a bodyguard in the center of the field Jordi Alba as an ideal assistant from the left wing, but Messi will also have one of his favorite partners and friends on and off the pitch in attack: the Uruguayan Luis Suárez.

With Messi, Suárez, Busquets and Alba leading this ‘recreation’ of Barcelona under Argentine coach Gerardo ‘Tata’ Martino, Inter Miami will escape the 2024 MLS season this Wednesday with a match at Chase Stadium (the new name of the former known as DRV PNK Stadium) in front of the Royal Salt Lake. It will be from 10pm (Argentine time) and with television AppleTVby subscription to MLS season ticket.

The rest of the first day of the 2024 MLS season will be played between Saturday 24th and Sunday 25th. Both Inter Miami and Real Salt Lake will do a double in this first week, given that the Florida team will face the LA Galaxy at home on Sunday while the of Utah will face St. Louis City on Saturday and away from home.

Inter Miami won the first edition of the Leagues Cup last year, but Messi’s injury caused him to miss several MLS regular season matches and the squad was excluded from the MLS Cup playoffs and also fell in the US Open Cup final against Houston Dynamo.

As a major development this year, Messi’s team will compete in the Concacaf Champions Cup, which is a gateway to the FIFA Club World Cup.

Outside of club competitions, Messi has the Copa América in 2024 with the Argentine national team, which will be played in the United States, and the possibility of going to the Paris 2024 Olympics with the Albiceleste has not yet been confirmed or ruled out.