NEW YORK (Reuters) - Major League Soccer (MLS) has signed a few big names over the years but the potential recruitment of Lionel Messi by Inter Miami could be a game-changer for American soccer.
The BBC reported on Wednesday that the great Argentine forward has rejected a lucrative contract in Saudi Arabia to join the MLS side and play for a club outside Europe for the first time in more than 20 years.
Messi had wanted to go to a club where he could eventually have an ownership stake, a source with knowledge of the negotiations told Reuters this week. Beckham and his wife, Victoria Beckham of the Spice Girls, fitted in with the celebrity-drenched culture of Tinseltown and the move was celebrated as opening a new era for MLS.
"He is the most recognisable and the best soccer player on the planet at the same time," said Eric Wynalda, a former U.S. national player and soccer broadcaster who currently hosts a show on SiriusXM.The announcement falls short of the biggest shock in North American club soccer, when late Brazilian great Pele came out of retirement to sign for a little-known U.S. club called the New York Cosmos in 1975.
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