Inter Miami's coach reveals if Lionel Messi will start vs New York Red Bulls

Lionel Messi is a few hours away from making his MLS debut officially. After a great tournament in the Leagues Cup where the footballer was the most valuable of the entire tournament and Miami won his first official title, Messi is now preparing for the most difficult challenge of all. Miami must start winning games in MLS if it wants to make the playoffs.

"We will evaluate it further after tonight's training session," replied Tata Martino when asked about Messi's availability for this match on Date 28 of the American league to be played against the New York Red Bulls. It is that Lionel Messi comes from a significant number of accumulated games where he has always been a starter.

As if that were not enough, the soccer player recently played 120 minutes with Inter Miami against Cincinnati FC in the semifinals of the US Open Cup, where Gerardo Martino's club emerged victorious and advanced to the final of the tournament. However, according to the coach of the Miami team, Lionel Messi always wants to play and there is no doubt about that.

What does Martino say about Messi?

“There is a question that pertains to Leo's (Messi) entire career, which is that he always wants to play and wants to play every game. Sometimes you have to convince him to stop, so that he can recover and be fit for the games. But everything external is not something that I take into account to understand if he has to play or not, "said Tata to the press.