{"id":293926,"date":"2023-10-11T19:22:15","date_gmt":"2023-10-11T19:22:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sports-life-news.com\/?p=293926"},"modified":"2023-10-11T19:22:15","modified_gmt":"2023-10-11T19:22:15","slug":"inside-lionel-messis-whirlwind-start-to-life-at-inter-miami","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sports-life-news.com\/soccer\/inside-lionel-messis-whirlwind-start-to-life-at-inter-miami\/","title":{"rendered":"Inside Lionel Messi&apos;s whirlwind start to life at Inter Miami"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Inside Lionel Messi&#8217;s whirlwind start to life at Inter Miami &#8211; in his own words: Advice from David Beckham, Antonela enjoying Florida and a debut that was beyond &#8216;my wildest dreams&#8217;<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>&#8216;Messi Meets America&#8217; released its first episode on Apple TV on Wednesday<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>The episode gives insight into Messi&#8217;s first days joining Inter Miami this summer\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>DailyMail.com provides all the latest international sports news\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The first chapter in Apple&#8217;s &#8216;Messi Meets America&#8217; documentary shared the background into how Inter Miami got one of the greatest players of all time &#8211; with the man himself offering his thoughts.<\/p>\n<p>Episode one talked about the lengths that David Beckham and the Mas brothers went to bringing Lionel Messi to the club this past summer &#8211; and gave insight into the process.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;There&#8217;s a lot of hard work that has to be done to bring a player like Leo into this league, and we were prepared to do that,&#8217; Beckham said in the documentary.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Because a player like Leo and the magnitude of bringing him and his family to Miami, there\u2019s many elements that have to be put right before you even think about having a conversation.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Messi said that Beckham shared insight into how the league worked, what it was like, and what the Englishman experienced when he joined LA Galaxy in 2007.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/11\/18\/76439139-12620109-image-a-61_1697045869346.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>The first episode of &#8216;Messi Meets America&#8217; gives insight to the Argentine&#8217;s first days at the club\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/11\/18\/76439119-12620109-Messi_said_that_the_decision_to_join_Miami_was_something_that_he-a-2_1697046881973.jpg\" height=\"531\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Messi said that the decision to join Miami was something that he and his family wanted<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/11\/18\/76439117-12620109-Messi_says_his_family_has_enjoyed_their_time_in_Miami_and_has_ha-a-3_1697046886505.jpg\" height=\"515\" width=\"632\"><\/p>\n<p>Messi says his family has enjoyed their time in Miami and has had a &#8216;nice start&#8217; to life there<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;He guided me and told me a little bit about his experience, what it had been like for him to come and play here when he made the decision,&#8217; Messi said in Spanish (translation via subtitles).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;But at the same time he told me that things now were not the same because the league has grown a lot since his arrival.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Eventually, after debating a return to Barcelona or a move to Saudi Arabia, Messi agreed to join Inter Miami this past summer.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I came with great enthusiasm,&#8217; Messi said. &#8216;My wife and I and our children have really been enjoying ourselves and we\u2019ve been talking about what this could mean for us. And it was a nice start.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>When it came to being aligned with Beckham and the other owners, it was important to Messi, &#8216;to know that we were going in the same direction that we had the same idea and the same desire to make the club grow and to be a club that people can identify with and come to love.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>His signing was a coup for Beckham and Mas &#8211; who fulfilled promises they made to fans that they would bring the best players in the world to the Sunshine State.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;We made this decision to bring Leo to Miami not just for us, not just for our fans &#8211; but we did it for the league, we did it for the sport and we did it for America,&#8217; Beckham said. &#8216;But what comes with that is the eyes of the world.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>What the eyes of the world saw when Messi first arrived was a Miami team in shambles.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/11\/18\/76438299-0-image-a-40_1697044167923.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>It also shows what David Beckham and Miami&#8217;s ownership went through to get Messi<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/11\/18\/76437179-0-Lionel_Messi_s-a-45_1697044496028.jpg\" height=\"386\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Despite Miami being last in the league, Messi said his arrival was a good time for changes\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/11\/18\/76438287-0-image-a-41_1697044171752.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Beckham (L) said the choice to get Messi on Miami had impacts that went beyond the club<\/p>\n<p>The team hadn&#8217;t won a league match in eleven fixtures by the time Messi arrived in July &#8211; dating back to a 2-1 win over the New England Revolution.<\/p>\n<p>That team was coached under Phil Neville. Neville lasted just five more games before being sacked in early June.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I didn\u2019t want us to be on the bottom of the league when he arrived but we didn\u2019t win those games,&#8217; said Beckham.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;We weren\u2019t in a great position. The team were very low on confidence, on morale. It wasn\u2019t good enough.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Messi explained, &#8216;We came from having a bad season in the league in terms of results and standings. But we also knew that it was a good chance to start changing things.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Their first chance to do that was in a Leagues Cup match against Liga MX side Cruz Azul. Messi began his night on the bench but was eager to get in the game.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/11\/18\/76439121-12620109-Messi_said_that_David_Beckham_offered_him_guidance_and_told_him_-m-62_1697046097955.jpg\" height=\"635\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Messi said that David Beckham offered him guidance and told him about life in the USA<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I was very excited to play again,&#8217; Messi revealed. &#8216;I was hoping to get in, many people had come to see me and I really wanted to go out to be in there to help the team because it was also a very very close match.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;We had a chance to start with a victory and for us it was essential to start that way.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Once he came on, Inter Miami&#8217;s captain &#8211; American right back DeAndre Yedlin &#8211; gave Messi the captain&#8217;s armband, something Messi initially objected to.<\/p>\n<p>Messi said, &#8216;[Yedlin] told me he was going to give me the armband when I came in, I told him no. He was the captain and I was okay with that. He insisted that, no, I was going to be the captain.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Then came the magical moment. Deadlocked at 1-1, Messi won a free kick in the 94th minute &#8211; which he sent into the top left corner with ease to pull out a victory.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/11\/18\/76438319-0-image-m-44_1697044190166.jpg\" height=\"474\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Messi&#8217;s free kick goal against Cruz Azul was something not even he could imagine<\/p>\n<p>He says that he never could have dreamed that storybook beginning to his career with the club.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;The truth is it was crazy how it happened,&#8217; he explained. Not even in my wildest dreams did I imagine it playing out that way.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Obviously you always dream big and always imagine the best, don\u2019t you? But the truth is that I hadn\u2019t imagined it.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;It was extraordinary to be able to start like this because of all the expectations I had, because it was my first minutes in my first home game, it gave us the victory in the last minute, and well\u2026 it was special. 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