Argentine Lionel Messi, the American captain of Inter Miami, celebrated his 38th birthday, after he led his team to qualify for the 16th round of the Club World Cup currently held in the United States.
The Inter Miami team qualified for the round of 16 after ranked second in the first group in the championship currently held in the United States after winning 5 points, with a goal difference behind Palmeiras.
Inter Miami started his matches in the championship with a negative tie with Al-Ahly, then beat Porto 2-1, and concluded his matches in the group stage with a 2-2 draw with Palmes Brazilian.
Messi will have an emotional match in the round of 16, where his former team will face Paris Saint -Germain.
Messi was born on June 24, 1987, and he is considered one of the greatest players in history, and he has achieved many records in the individual awards he won throughout his professional football career, as he crowned 8 times the Golden Ball award.
Messi, Happy Birthday! ❤️ pic.twitter.com/wlrdEbGi07
— Messi World (@M10GOAT) June 24, 2025
Messi moved to the ranks of Inter Miami in the summer of 2023 in a free transfer deal, after the end of his contract with Paris Saint -Germain, who spent two seasons between his walls.
“Leo” went up to the podiums with Miami twice by winning the League Cup in 2023 and shielding fans in 2024, and before that he achieved 3 titles with Paris Saint -Germain by winning the league title twice, and the French Super Cup.
The successes of the Argentine star, the largest veteran in the shirt of his old club, Barcelona, who lived between his walls 20 years, during which he included the ranks of the club’s juniors and reached the first team to achieve 34 local, continental and global titles.
Messi put the Catalan team on the top for many years, and thanks to the achievements he achieved with “Barca” he won the Golden Ball Award for the best player in the world 7 times, the last of which was in 2021 before he signed the throne of the prestigious award for the eighth and last time in. 2022
With the national teams, Messi won the U -20 World Cup with Argentina in the championship hosted by the Netherlands in 2005, and also won the gold of the Olympic Games in the 2008 Sydney, and achieved his biggest dream of winning the World Cup in the last version (Qatar 2022).
The captain of the Argentine national team was also crowned the Copa America twice in 2021 and 2023, and the Finalesma Cup in 2022, which brought together the champions of Europe and South America, where the Argentine team defeated its Italian counterpart with three anti -Wimpeli stadiums.
The first American club to qualify for the knockout stage in the history of the Club World Cup 🏆
The effect of this man is incredible! 😰🐐 pic.twitter.com/nrZSS55X99
— Messi World (@M10GOAT) June 24, 2025
It is noteworthy that Messi did not come out of any group role in any championship he played in his career with the national team and clubs, and he was always leading the team and clubs to the exclusionary roles.
Lionel Messi carries over his shoulders all these accomplishments, and looks forward to a new achievement that seems almost impossible, with Inter Miami, where he aims to lead him to the farthest possible role in this tournament.
To achieve this achievement, on Messi and 4 former Barcelona players, the meeting of their former coach, Luis Enrique, when he faces Inter European Saint -Germain next Sunday.
Messi, Jordi Alba, Sergio Busquets and Luis Suarez played under the leadership of Luis Enrique in Spain, and they were among the team that removed Saint-Germain from the Champions League final for the 2016-2017 season.
The importance of the match
Saint-Germain definitely exceeded his painful leaving the Champions League in 2017, when he won the first leg in Paris 4-0, but he was subjected to a heavy 6-1 defeat in the second leg in Barcelona.
The French team won its first Champions League title this season in a march led by Luis Enrique, but Messi and his companions will be keen to achieve another surprise.
The king after the end of the meeting pic.twitter.com/zLiR4BMfHI
— Messi World (@M10GOAT) June 24, 2025
Suarez, 38, showed that he still has the ability to score in the major championships when Miami’s second goal scored his draw with Palmeiras 2-2.
The most prominent statements
“Maybe they (Paris Saint -Germain) are better than us, but in football, no one knows. Maybe it becomes Sunday.”
As for the Miami striker Suarez, who won the best player in the Inter Miami and Miras match, he confirmed that “if we make these mistakes against Paris Saint -Germain, we will pay a heavy price. It is evident that in these types of championships, there is always a candidate to win, this is a fact. We will face the European Champions and we have to try to exploit our chances. Luis Enrique knows many players, and has affected me a lot. I was. I was.
I really have a competitive Gina inside me, but it made me more competitive. “