Lionel Messi in action© AFP
Lionel Messi will sit out of Inter Miami’s leading league football game at Houston Dynamo on Sunday as the club will see to manage its minutes. A club spokesperson confirmed AFP that Messi did not travel to Houston on Saturday, but was not injured and was not being rested. Sunday’s game was aired for the league to stand alone “Sunday night aired on Football: Apple TV, which MLS hopes to increase the fan in the league. Inter Miami has made a busy start for the season with his MLS opener last week, which was coming between two legs of the first round of the first round of Concaphaf Champions Cup.
Messi started all those games, but the club opted to sit at the age of 37 for the fourth game in 12 days.
Miami is again in ConcacAF action on Thursday, when he hosts the Jamaica Club Cavalier’s two leg tie to start in that game with Messi in the first-foot of his two leg tie.
Inter’s busy schedule continues in March with its first eight matches of the season coming in a span of 26 days.
Messi on Friday trained along with the rest of his team’s colleagues including 38 -year -old Uruguay striker Luis Suarez who visited Houston.
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