On February 1, Lionel Messi’s Inter Miami will face Cristiano Ronaldo’s Al Nassr Saudi Arabia, as announced this Monday by the American club. The Argentine’s team will play a preseason triangular where, in addition to CR7’s club, Neymar’s Al Hilal will join him, who is recovering from a delicate injury.
Under the name Riyadh Season Cup, Inter Miami will first face Al Hilal on January 29 at the Kingdom Arena in Riyadh. Although the great attraction is the crossing of the two footballers who marked the last 20 years of world football, so much so that the match is already being sold as The Last Dance.
February 1 will be the day of Inter Miami’s match with Al Nassr, in a new face to face between Messi and Ronaldo, the two most important footballers of their generation.
“These matches will provide interesting tests for our team, which will benefit us as we approach a new season. We are delighted that our group will have the opportunity to face teams of the quality of Al Hilal and Al Nassr,” said Chris Henderson, manager Inter Miami sports team.
Messi will play for the first time against Newell’s
Fifteen days later, Lionel Andrés Messi will face Newell’s Old Boys de Rosario for the first time, the team where he was born when Inter Miami receives him on February 15 at the DRV PNK Stadium.
“Lepra” will travel to Fort Louderdale to face the team that has the best player in the world, recent winner of his eighth Ballon d’Or, and that is led by another idol of the Rosario club: Gerardo Martino who was champion with Lepra in the Final Tournament of 2013.
“The idea of the match arose in Miami, we received the invitation directly from there, surely Messi and Martino had a lot to do with all this,” said Ignacio Astore, president of Newell’s.
The United States team already has its preseason planned with the captain of the World Champion Team in Qatar 2022.
While planning the preseason, the Miami team is preparing an engineering plan to continue surrounding Messi with stars: the main target is the Uruguayan Luis Suárez. In addition, midfielder Ivan Rakitic and Sergi Roberto, goalkeeper David De Gea and German striker Thomas Müller are added to the list.
With agency information