Heartbreaking, the real reason why Messi joined Inter Miami instead of Barcelona

Lionel Messi confessed that he intended to return to FC Barcelona, however in Major League Soccer they convinced him to sign for Inter Miami. In an article that appeared in Time magazine, after Messi won the award for athlete of the year, it was revealed what Beckham told him to convince him.

"I explained to him that, as a family, the six years we spent in Los Angeles were the best six years we had. People welcomed us with open arms, not only in Los Angeles, but throughout the United States," they mentioned in the Magazine Time. Thus, Lionel Messi finally put on the Inter Miami shirt.

“Messi is an accelerator. With the most revered and influential athlete on the planet playing in Miami for at least the next two years, still performing at the top of his game, he won another Ballon d'Or as world player of the year, his eighth, in late October: United States It is now a football nation. A football nation,” the media added.

Messi's words on arriving to the MLS:

“I am also aware that I went to a minor league, but a lot of things happen because of the way you face it and compete... I said it several times and it is a reality. I will always try to compete to the maximum and I am the first to know when I can be there and when I can't.”