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Superstar Lionel Messi signed a declaration hold with Inter Miami done 2028, the MLS nine announced Thursday (October 23, 2025) morning.
Inter Miami announced the quality implicit societal media with a video of Messi signing the declaration astatine the operation tract of their caller stadium. The header successful the video was simply: “HE’S HOME.”
“It makes maine truly blessed to enactment present and to proceed with this task that, too being a dream, has go a beauteous world -- playing successful this stadium, astatine Miami Freedom Park,” Messi said. “Since I arrived successful Miami, I’ve been precise happy, truthful I’m genuinely gladsome to support going here.”
Messi, 38, joined Inter Miami during the 2023 season, and his erstwhile declaration ran done the extremity of the 2025 campaign.
He won the Golden Boot successful MLS this play with 29 goals. He added 19 assists for 48 extremity contributions, 1 abbreviated of matching the league grounds acceptable by Carlos Vela successful 2019.
Messi is bidding to go the archetypal MLS subordinate to triumph back-to-back MVP honors and 2nd multi-time winner. Preki won the grant successful 1997 and 2003.
“We promised our fans that we would imagination large to physique an iconic club. A nine that represents the passion, hard enactment and dedication of each those that came earlier america to make a Miami built connected dreams,” managing proprietor Jorge Mas said. “Leo signing done 2028 is an ode to our astonishing city. We precise overmuch look guardant to penning caller chapters astatine our stadium astatine Miami Freedom Park. Together we volition proceed gathering and dreaming.”
An eight-time victor of the Ballon d’Or fixed to the satellite subordinate of the year, Messi starred for Barcelona from 2004-21 and for Paris Saint-Germain from 2021-23. He was portion of 10 league-title-winning teams successful Spain and 2 successful France, successful summation to helping Barcelona seizure the UEFA Champions League trophy 4 times.
Immediately upon joining MLS, Messi helped Inter Miami triumph the 2023 Leagues Cup. The Herons won the 2024 Supporters’ Shield, awarded to the nine with the champion regular-season record, but they mislaid successful the archetypal circular of the playoffs.
“Our imaginativeness was to bring the champion players to Inter Miami and to this city, and that’s precisely what we person done,” co-owner David Beckham said. “We brought the champion subordinate to person ever played the crippled to our city. That shows our committedness to Miami, but it besides shows Leo’s committedness to the city, to the Club, and to the game. He’s inactive arsenic committed arsenic he’s ever been and helium inactive wants to win. As owners, to person a subordinate that loves the crippled arsenic overmuch arsenic helium does, and who has done arsenic overmuch for the crippled successful this state and to animate the adjacent procreation of young endowment arsenic helium has, we consciousness precise lucky.”
Messi guided Argentina to the World Cup title successful 2022 and to Copa American crowns successful 2021 and 2024.
