Lionel Messi and Inter Miami CF will embark on a five-match preseason tour across South America and Central America, preparing for the 2025 MLS season.
Lionel Messi is getting another preseason tour with Inter Miami , this one a five-match trip that will see the reigning MLS Supporters’ Shield winners playing in four different countries as it tunes up for the 2025 season. Announced Friday, January 10, 2025, were three matches in South America and Central America . Inter Miami opens that swing with a game against Peruvian champion Club Universitario de Deportes in Lima on January 29.
From there, the club goes to Panama City to take on Sporting San Miguelito on February 2, followed by a trip to San Pedro Sula, Honduras, for a February 8 match against Club Deportivo Olimpia. The first and last preseason matches were already known: Inter Miami will play Mexican power Club America in Las Vegas on January 18 and close the exhibition slate in Tampa, Florida, against MLS rival Orlando City on February 14. With 34 regular season MLS matches, five preseason games and the three cup tournaments, Inter Miami could easily exceed 50 matches this season — and probably will play even more than that. And that doesn’t even count international matches for Messi and likely several other Inter Miami players. This year’s preseason tour isn’t quite as ambitious as the one Inter Miami planned last year, with matches in Dallas, El Salvador, Saudi Arabia, Hong Kong and Japan on that schedule. Much of that trip didn’t go as envisioned: A Messi vs. Cristiano Ronaldo matchup in Saudi Arabia didn’t happen because Ronaldo was sidelined by injury, and fans in Asia were angered by Messi missing one match there and playing sparingly in another. Some refunds were even issued to help appease disappointed ticketholders, some of whom spent more than $600 with hopes of seeing Messi play
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