{"id":8667,"date":"2023-09-17T01:50:33","date_gmt":"2023-09-17T01:50:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2023\/09\/17\/lionel-messi-to-miss-saturdays-inter-miami-mls-game-against-atlanta-united\/"},"modified":"2023-09-17T01:50:33","modified_gmt":"2023-09-17T01:50:33","slug":"lionel-messi-to-miss-saturdays-inter-miami-mls-game-against-atlanta-united","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2023\/09\/17\/lionel-messi-to-miss-saturdays-inter-miami-mls-game-against-atlanta-united\/","title":{"rendered":"Lionel Messi to miss Saturday\u2019s Inter Miami MLS game against Atlanta United"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      Lionel Messi will miss a Major League Soccer match for the first time since joining Inter Miami as he will not feature against Atlanta United on Saturday.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      The turf field at Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta did not play a role, the source said.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      The 36-year-old\u2019s arrival to the MLS sparked a debate in US soccer about the potential physical impact of playing on an artificial surface and there had been speculation in the build up to the match over whether he would play on a turf field.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      However, at Messi\u2019s introductory media conference with Miami he explained that his \u201cyouth was spent on artificial turf, my whole life was on that pitch.\u201d  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      When he moved to Europe to play for Barcelona he would play on grass, but Messi added: \u201cTruth is it\u2019s been a while since I\u2019ve played on artificial turf, but I have no problem adapting myself again.\u201d  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      The seven-time Ballon d\u2019Or award-winner, who\u00a0did not play in Argentina\u2019s World Cup qualifying win over Bolivia on Tuesday, did not travel with the club for Saturday\u2019s match.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      On Friday, Messi\u00a0posted\u00a0a picture on his Instagram stories account of a pizza order in Miami.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      Organizers were expecting more than 70,000 spectators at the stadium to see the Argentinian phenom.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      Inter Miami, on a nine-game winless run prior to Messi\u2019s debut, is unbeaten in 11 games and captured its first trophy last month. Messi has featured in three MLS games so far this season.  <\/p>\n\n<div>This post appeared first on cnn.com<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lionel Messi will miss a Major League Soccer match for the first time since joining Inter Miami as he will not feature against Atlanta United on Saturday. The turf field at Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta did not play a role, the source said. The 36-year-old\u2019s arrival to the MLS sparked a debate in US soccer <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":8668,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-8667","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8667\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}