“But there are times when we're going to have to balance the schedule.” “I think the challenge is, from our performance staff, what can we do as a club to support these players and make sure that they are able to give as many minutes as they can,” Henderson said. And keeping Messi and other players as available as possible is part of the team's thinking as it formulates its plan for next year, Inter Miami sporting director Chris Henderson said Monday. Oh, and there's national team duties for some players, too.Īdd it all up, and Lionel Messi - the eight-time Ballon D'Or winner who turns 37 next summer - and many of his Inter Miami teammates will be asked to play a ton of soccer in 2024. There'll be appearances in the Leagues Cup, the U.S. There's a 34-game Major League Soccer season.
(AP) - Inter Miami is putting together its preseason schedule, one that will likely have somewhere between four and six games early next year.