{"id":54737,"date":"2024-10-20T06:04:36","date_gmt":"2024-10-20T06:04:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/messi-becomes-inter-miamis-all-time-leading-scorer\/"},"modified":"2024-10-20T06:04:36","modified_gmt":"2024-10-20T06:04:36","slug":"messi-becomes-inter-miamis-all-time-leading-scorer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/messi-becomes-inter-miamis-all-time-leading-scorer\/","title":{"rendered":"Messi becomes Inter Miami\u2019s all-time leading scorer"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Lionel Messi on Saturday, became Inter Miami\u2019s all-time leading scorer.<\/p>\n<p>The 37-year-old scored a stunning hat-trick within 11 minutes to help the MLS side beat New England Revolution 6-2 at the Chase Stadium in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.<\/p>\n<p>Messi\u2019s goals also helped Inter Miami break the MLS record for most points in a single season.<\/p>\n<p>They finished the regular season with 74 points in 34 games and a 22-4-8 (W-L-D) record, narrowly besting the Revolution\u2019s 2021 mark of 73 points.<\/p>\n<p>Miami had gone two goals down, before Luis Suarez scored twice to level the scores.<\/p>\n<p>But it was Messi who fittingly cemented the club\u2019s name in league history.<\/p>\n<p>Just one minute after coming on, he helped set up Benjamin Cremaschi to put Miami ahead for the first time in the 58th minute.<\/p>\n<p>The eight-time Ballon d\u2019Or winner then scored his first hat trick for Miami and in the process became the club\u2019s all-time leading scorer with 33 goals.<\/p>\n<p>Miami also became the first team in MLS history to have multiple players score at least 20 goals in a season.<\/p>\n<p>Messi becomes Inter Miami\u2019s all-time leading scorer<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lionel Messi on Saturday, became Inter Miami\u2019s all-time leading scorer. The 37-year-old scored a stunning hat-trick within 11 minutes to&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":54738,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4595,2634,15,160],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-inter-miami","category-messi","category-news","category-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54737\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}