Lionel Messi has accepted an offer from MLS club Inter Miami and will soon join the main underdog of the MLS season in the Eastern Conference. It is interesting how the legendary player will react to new teammates, among whom there are players who did not dream that they would ever be on the same field as Messi. Your attention – five of Messi’s new teammates in Inter Miami – from the most famous to the most unknown.
Sergey Krivtsov (Ukraine)
Lionel Messi discussed with the leadership of Inter the need to invite with him a couple of his former partners in the Argentina national team or Barcelona, but so far his only acquaintance at Inter will be the new team coach Gerardo Martino, with whom Lionel worked both in the national team and in Barcelona. This is his favorite coach, with whom he is very comfortable.
But still, there is a player who previously crossed paths with Messi in the Champions League – this is the former Shakhtar Donetsk defender Serhiy Kryvtsov, who joined Inter Miami in January. Kryvtsov played against Messi several times and was the player who tried to patronize him, so Lionel will meet at least some familiar face in the new team. For Inter, even at the age of 32, Kryvtsov is a very high-quality defender, with extensive experience and the ability to lead the defense. He needs some time to settle into the team and there is no doubt that Sergei will become a key player in Inter’s defense.
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Harvey Neville (Ireland)
It is difficult to say whether the son of former Inter Miami manager Phil Neville will remain in the team, but for now he is in the Inter roster and comes on as a substitute from time to time. Harvey James Neville is the son of former Manchester United and Everton player Phil Neville, who was recently sacked as manager of Inter Miami after a run of five league defeats.
Probably, when David Beckham made the decision to fire his former teammate and good friend, he already understood that a new coach would come under him along with Messi, and Phil Neville also knew about this. His son attended United’s academy, but when his father moved to MLS, Harvey went with him. He still has some talents, otherwise the Irish national team would not bother calling him to the youth team. Yes, Phil Neville played for England, and his son remembered that he had an Irish grandmother and became Irish. But so far, he has not advanced further than one game for the youth team of the Emerald Isle.
Sheneider Borgelin (Haiti)
But Messi will mainly cooperate on the field with the players of the attacking line, and here Inter has a representative of an exotic country for Europe – Haiti. Schneider Borgelin joined Inter in 2022 from USL Philadelphia Union and immediately had a very strong season for the club’s Miami reserves, scoring 14 goals.
This season, he is increasingly allowed to join the base, mainly for substitutions. He even scored one goal – in the same game, when the team’s newcomer Sergei Krivtsov scored. Borgelin came on as a substitute and set the score 2-0 against Montreal. He also scored in the US Cup, where Inter Miami played with the reserves against the Miami club and won only in a penalty shootout.
Leonardo Campagna (Ecuador)
Interestingly, in the new Messi club there is one pupil of Barcelona – Leonardo Campagna Romero. This, however, is about Barcelona of Ecuador – a club well known in South America, regularly playing in the Copa Libertadores.
Campagna has already played in Europe – after Barcelona, he spent two seasons in the structure of the English Premier League club Wolverhampton, but did not play for the main team for a single minute and went to the Portuguese Famalican, and then to the Swiss Grasshopper. Campagna did not prove himself there either and arrived in the MLS and last season was the team’s top scorer with 11 goals scored after Inter’s main star at that time, Gonzalo Higuain.
Robert Taylor (Finland)
Who is sure to lose playing time at Inter with the arrival of Messi is the team’s current playmaker Robert Taylor. The Inter-attacking midfielder has an English surname, but he is a Finn who was born in the city of Kuopio and has been in Miami for the second season.
He previously played for Finnish Jyväskylä (JJK), Sweden’s AIK and Norway’s Brann and Tromsø, the latter remaining the only club to have played in European competition from within the Arctic Circle. Probably, Robert could not even think that this season Lionel Messi himself would become his competitor for a place at the base! Although, he will probably be happy just to train with the great Argentine and play alongside him from time to time.