LIONEL MESSI yet enactment an age-old statement to furniture aft playing successful conditions adjacent COLDER than a Tuesday nighttime successful Stoke.
The eight-time Ballon d’Or victor is seen by galore arsenic the top footballer of each time.
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GettyHowever, 1 of the main arguments against his bequest is his deficiency of crippled clip successful colder weather owed to his vocation chiefly being played retired successful sunny Spain oregon Argentina.
This is commonly related to Stoke, wherever games are typically dogged by windy, bedewed and acold upwind successful the evenings, hence the phrase: “Can they bash it connected a cold, rainy nighttime successful Stoke?”
But successful Inter Miami‘s archetypal competitory crippled of 2025 successful the CONCACAF Champions Cup’s archetypal round, Lionel Messi was forced to swap the pristine upwind of Florida for the brisk conditions successful Kansas City.
It had sensationally been reported the 37-year-old did not privation to play successful the “blistering cold” the crippled was acceptable to beryllium played through.
Temperatures dropped arsenic debased arsenic -17 degrees Celsius (1.4 Fahrenheit) during the game.
Regardless, Messi was named successful the starting XI by Inter Miami brag Javier Mascherano and was seen wearing gloves for the juncture successful a uncommon sight.
After a goalless archetypal half, the Argentine made his interaction known arsenic helium scored a stunning match-winner 10 minutes into the half.
A walk was pinged guardant by Sergio Busquets, with Messi taking the shot down connected his thorax and past dribbling to the close of a bamboozled defender with a left-foot interaction to unfastened up immoderate space.
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GettyHe past arrowed a changeable crossed the extremity from a choky angle, uncovering the bottommost country to springiness Inter a 1-0 vantage up of the location limb astatine Chase Stadium next week.
Fans were stunned astatine the extremity but besides believed it yet laid 1 of the arguments against him to rest.
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GettyOne instrumentality said connected societal media: “The statement ‘Could Messi bash it connected a acold Tuesday nighttime vs Stoke’ is present enactment to bed, the Goat tin bash it with ease.”
A 2nd said: “No mode radical said helium couldn’t bash it connected a acold rainy nighttime successful Stoke.”
A 3rd added: “GOAT for a reason.”
(I’m) precise arrogant due to the fact that I deliberation it’s intolerable to play successful these conditions. It’s not human, you know. So I’m precise proud, due to the fact that they gave maine 100 per cent…
Javier MascheranoHis brag Mascherano was besides impressed, calling his effort “fantastic” earlier adding: “(I’m) precise arrogant due to the fact that I deliberation it’s intolerable to play successful these conditions.
“It’s not human, you know. So I’m precise proud, due to the fact that they gave maine 100 per cent…
“Maybe for the radical that cognize him (Messi) it’s mean due to the fact that helium did goals similar this 1,000 times.
“But we are precise fortunate to person him here.”
Inter Miami‘s archetypal Major League Soccer crippled of the play is this play against New York City FC astatine home.
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