{"id":30587,"date":"2024-08-15T05:19:35","date_gmt":"2024-08-15T02:19:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/?p=30587"},"modified":"2024-08-15T05:19:35","modified_gmt":"2024-08-15T02:19:35","slug":"messi-wont-play-for-miami-in-leagues-cup-match-at-columbus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/15\/messi-wont-play-for-miami-in-leagues-cup-match-at-columbus\/","title":{"rendered":"Messi Won&#8217;t Play for Miami in Leagues Cup Match at Columbus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Sudan Events &#8211; Agencies<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Argentine star Lionel Messi was ruled out on Monday by Inter Miami coach Gerardo Martino for the defending champions&#8217; Leagues Cup knockout match on Tuesday at reigning MLS champion Columbus, AFP reported.<\/p>\n<p>Messi remains sidelined after suffering a right ankle injury a month ago in Argentina&#8217;s 1-0 victory over Colombia in the Copa America final.<\/p>\n<p>Messi has not yet trained with his Miami teammates since escaping a walking boot.<\/p>\n<p>The Leagues Cup is a tournament with MLS and Liga MX Mexican clubs, with Messi helping lift Miami to last year&#8217;s inaugural title.<\/p>\n<p>The showdown match between the Columbus Crew, last year&#8217;s MLS kings, and Miami, this year&#8217;s top overall team in the league table, is among eight matches that will decide quarter-final pairings on Friday and Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>In Monday&#8217;s round-of-16 opener, the host Seattle Sounders blanked Mexican side Pumas 4-0.<\/p>\n<p>Paul Rothrock&#8217;s header off a centering pass from Albert Rusnak in the 32nd minute gave Seattle a 1-0 lead and Jordan Morris doubled the Sounders&#8217; edge in the 58th with Rusnak again on the assist.<\/p>\n<p>Slovakian Rusnak scored on a penalty shot in the 71st minute and Morris added a final goal from the spot in the fifth minute of stoppage time.<\/p>\n<p>Seattle, which also defeated Pumas in the 2022 CONCACAF Champions League final, will next host the winner of a Tuesday match between San Jose and Los Angeles FC.<\/p>\n<p>Other knockout matches on Tuesday include Philadelphia at Cincinnati, Cruz Azul against Mazatlan, Tigres against New York City, Toluca at Colorado and Club America at St. Louis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sudan Events &#8211; Agencies Argentine star Lionel Messi was ruled out on Monday by Inter Miami coach Gerardo Martino for the defending champions&#8217; Leagues Cup knockout match on Tuesday at reigning MLS champion Columbus, AFP reported. Messi remains sidelined after suffering a right ankle injury a month ago in Argentina&#8217;s 1-0 victory over Colombia in &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30580,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30587"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30587\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30588,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30587\/revisions\/30588"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}