Another distinction for Messi the day he leaves the Argentine team

Lionel Messi This Monday he was named best player of matchday 23 of Major League Soccer (MLS) after the number of goals he scored in the victory of the Inter Miami against him Montreal by 7-1.

Messi scored 2-1 for his team with a direct free kick, 3-1 thanks to a spectacular slalom in the area and 5-1 with Vaseline, before finishing off the night with another goal from a direct free kick.

The four goals left him as the leader of the MLS top scorers table, with 18 goals.

Messi also assisted his teammate Luis Suarez in the play that made the score 4-1.

It is the third time so far this season that the Argentine has been chosen as the best player of the day and the fifteenth of his career in the MLS, which he arrived in the summer of 2023 from Paris Saint-Germain.

Messi has finished as the MVP of the regular season in the only two seasons he has played in full with Inter Miami and last year he won the first MLS Cup in the history of ‘Las Garzas’.

His selection as player of the day coincides with his retirement from the Argentine national team, which he announced this Monday in an emotional message on Instagram.

In it, the forward admitted that it was a decision that hurts his soul, but he considered that he has emptied himself and does not have anything to give “a lot more”.

Messi won the Copa América in 2021 and 2024 and the Qatar World Cup in 2022. He played 207 games with the albiceleste shirt, in which he scored 125 goals and registered 68 assists.