Miami and Nashville both joined Major League Soccer in 2020 as expansion teams, but have had drastically different approaches to life in the league
Miami and Nashville will both become expansion teams for Major League Soccer in 2020, but their approaches to playing in the league have been very different.
Blaise Matuidi, a French World Cup winner, and Gonzalo Higuain, an Argentine World Cup finalist, are just a couple of the talents who have donned Inter Miami's recognisable pink Herons uniforms in the past.
Then they made the most publicized signing in MLS history this summer to acquire Messi only nine months after he led Argentina to a World Cup title. And the seven-time Ballon d’Or winner has delivered, scoring nine goals in the tournament since his debut in the group opener and assisting four more scores
Messi's most recent goal, which was part of a 4-1 playoff victory over the Philadelphia Union on Tuesday, may help Miami create history with his tenth.
According to a translation provided by Sporting News, Messi remarked that perhaps winning the League Cup would be great, incredible for me, for the fans, and for the club itself." It's a rather new club. It would be lovely for everyone if we could attempt to win the first title.
Miami will have to earn it against Nashville, a team that entered Major League Soccer with more caution but was just as successful.
The Men in Gold have concentrated on bringing in foreign talent of lower calibre and prime age and fusing it with a veteran-heavy core.
Hany Mukhtar, a German native who is currently the front-runner for the MLS MVP award after winning it last season, has been the best of those international signings.
Sam Surridge, an English player who was added over the summer, has scored in each of his previous three games, including the game-winning goal in a stunning 2-0 home semifinal victory over CF Monterrey of Mexico.
Nashville midfielder Dax McCarty said of the most recent victory: "It's a really great feeling to beat a team that good, knowing that we have a final coming up here at home against another great team that's going to do similar things to what Monterrey tries to accomplish in possession."