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Lionel Messi, Inter Miami Visit Seattle With the Leagues Cup Trophy On the Line

For the fourth time in the 25 months since Lionel Messi arrived in South Florida and donned the pink No. 10 shirt for MLS glamor club Inter Miami, there’s a title at stake for the GOAT.

On Sunday night in Seattle, Messi and his Herons will try to recapture the Leagues Cup crown they won ahead of every first division club in the United States, Canada and Mexico a mere seven games into his new stateside adventure.

Messi then led Miami to the 2023 U.S. Open Cup final, which they lost to the Houston Dynamo.

Last season, Inter ran away with the MLS Supporter’s Shield awarded to the regular season champion, setting a single-season record for points.

There have been failures over the last two years, sure. Concacaf Champions Cup elimination to Liga LX titan Monterrey in the 2024 quarterfinals and in the semis this spring against the Vancouver Whitecaps. Last fall, Atlanta United stunned top-seeded Miami in the first round of the MLS Cup playoffs. At this summer’s FIFA Club World Cup, the Herons squandered a chance to top their group and were humbled by Paris Saint-Germain in the knockout stage.

(Photo by Image Photo Agency/Getty Images)

Winning the MLS championship remains the priority for the Herons, who recruited Rodrigo De Paul, Messi’s teammate on Argentina’s 2022 World Cup-winning squad, from Atlético Madrid last month. They still boast half of peak Barcelona’s starting lineup, with Jordi Alba, Sergio Busquets and Luis Suarez rounding out the 38-year-old legend’s supporting cast. While they have fallen slightly off the Supporters Shield pace this year, Miami will still probably be the bookies’ pick to hoist MLS Cup on Dec. 6.

But for a club that debuted just five years ago, every chance to add another trophy to the cabinet

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