Messi unleashes the war between Saudi Arabia and the United States: everyone wants him as an image for their World Cup

Messi and Antonela Roccuzzo four years ago they bought a property in Miami for which they paid five million dollars, a floor in one of the most coveted towers in the main city of Florida. Apartment 4705 in the Porsche Design Tower, the skyscraper in the Fisher Island district, a 198-meter-tall colossus with 60 stomping floors overlooking the Caribbean. The house of the Argentine star only has three bedrooms, a huge living room and four bathrooms. One thousand square meters, with Jacuzzi in each room, sauna, indoor pool and green spaces and private elevator.

#Qatar2022 Lionel Andrés Messi: “It’s crazy that it happened this way. I wanted it very much. I knew that God was going to give it to me, I had a presentiment that it was going to be this. Now to enjoy.” pic.twitter.com/w3KJ4X7gRd

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But having a house in Miami does not give clues about the future of the world champion because Messi has hotels and mansions on half the planet. Not in vain his fortune at only 35 years old amounts to 600 million dollars, according to Forbes.

Lionel Messi’s annual salary is 130 million dollars, of which 75 million are from direct contracts with PSG, while around 55 million enter from sponsorships. I mean, it doesn’t seem like money is a problem in your life.

However, the Argentine is considering an offer from Saudi Arabia that could be close to 500 million dollars for a two-year contract, that is, much more than what Cristiano Ronaldo charges. The former Barcelona player, who will continue one more year at PSG, Owned by the Qataris, they are considering the astronomical offer that competes with the one that has come to them from the United States to play next to their home in Florida: at Inter Miami. But it is that in addition to living in the Caribbean and on the other side of the pond, the American proposal includes being the image of the World Cup that North America organizes in 2026, with Mexico, the United States and Canada together in trouble.

The offer from Inter Miami was already known in October, before they won the World Cup in Qatar. The American temptation comes from afar. In the summer of 2021, before Messi signed his agreement with PSG, the City Football Group was already looking for an agreement in which the striker would sign for five years with them, the first three years at Manchester City and the next two at New York City. It was one of the first attempts to take the Argentine star to American soil.

Inter Miami, the team founded by David Beckham and the brothers Jorge and José Mas in 2018, he began to officially compete in the MLS in 2020, and already in 2021 contacts from Messi’s father and representative were leaked.

The impact that the former Barcelona player could have for soccer in the United States is decisive, even beyond what is related to the 2026 World Cup.

Messi will be almost 39 years old by then but he could play, if only to register his participation and put himself one step above the small club of players who have played five World Cups, participating in six.

If Messi puts his ambition to go down in history first, in addition to everything he has achieved so far, for holding the World Cup record, Riyadh has little to do for many dollars he puts on the table. The option to go to Saudi Arabia It would include promoting the next World Cup, that of 2030. But at that point Messi will no longer be active, while the American option would allow him to play.