Fury for Messi in the United States: Sporting KC goes to play Inter Miami and expects a record in the Arrowhead

The arrival of Lionel Messi TO Kansas City face Sporty with his Inter Miami he forced the local club to open the doors of the stadium Arrowheadtemple of the NFL and home of Patrick Mahomes he was born in Kansas City Chiefs double Super Bowl champions, for the most exceptional MLS duel of the day. Tickets, which fly at the box office, are sold for amounts ranging from 100 to more than 500 dollars and it is expected that the franchise of Missouri This Saturday breaks the record for spectators for a match. It takes place this Saturday, from 9.30pm, with broadcast via the Season Pass AppleTV.

Sporting usually plays its home games in Parco della Misericordia for childrenwith a capacity of just over 18,000 spectators. Arrowhead It has a capacity of 76,000 people and more than 60,000 people are expected to attend the meeting.

All because, almost a year after Messi’s arrival in the MLS, The fever in seeing the Argentine continues at the highest levels. It is an impact that has changed the size of Inter Miami and which also benefits the other clubs in the championship. For example, Chicago firewhich last season recorded an average audience of around 20,000 viewers, has been sold 62,124 tickets in October when they faced Inter Miami. Curiously, Messi ultimately did not play that match due to injury.

On a sporting level, the team Gerard Nanny Martin arrives in Kansas City after failing miserably to score his first goal of the season, being eliminated in the quarterfinals Concacaf Champions Cup.

The Uruguayan Luis Suarez In a press conference he declared that his team was aiming for four trophies this season. However, after eliminating Nashville SC in the round of 16, Inter Miami were dispatched with authority Rayados of Monterrey Mexican, who won the round trip.

Inter Miami is also experiencing a crisis in the MLS: they have won only one of their last five matches and have gained two points in their last three.

In addition to the defeat against Monterrey, Martino’s team is coming off a lackluster 2-2 draw against the Colorado Rapids at home and dropped to third place in the MLS Eastern Conference.

Messi, who missed four games with a muscle injury and returned for the last two games, has four goals in four MLS games and two in three ConcaChampions games. He will be Sporting’s main threat together with Suárez, who arrived in American football with five goals in seven games. However, his presence has not yet been confirmed. “Lionel Messi finished the match – in Monterrey – without any discomfort. I estimate that he will want to play”slipped Javier Moralesone of Martino’s field assistants.

Opposite, Inter Miami will have a Sporting team that is currently seventh, three points from the top of the West. Mexican Alan Pulido, who scored fourteen goals last year, has scored just one in six games this season.

Praise for Messi from Peter Vermes, the rival coach

“Some players have a couple of good qualities; It has them all and there’s nothing it doesn’t do well. The vision of him, his intellect, his IQ… High level players have a football IQ of 150 or 160. He has 300. That’s the difference“he assured Pietro Vermesthe experienced Sporting KC coach in the press conference before the duel.

Vermes, born in Holland and a naturalized American – he played in the ’90 World Cup in Italy with the North American national team – has led the franchise for 15 years. It’s a real institution. And he also allows himself to joke about Messi’s influence. And not just for the stadium move. “Tickets sold quickly and we expected more than 70,000 fans in the stadium and, of course, that’s because Messi is in town. Messi is like Jordan. Everyone wants to see him play. “I asked FIFA to see if I can field 15 players.”

The 59-year-old former striker concluded in this sense: “I talked a lot about Messi throughout the week and with the team’s last training session there was a certain expectation of facing him. Messi’s impact is already there because you are all here. “I don’t see them regularly, but it’s nice to see them all now.”

Source: EFE