{"id":55923,"date":"2025-10-23T11:56:32","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T16:56:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/23\/lionel-messi-signs-inter-miami-contract-extension-through-2028-season\/"},"modified":"2025-10-23T11:56:32","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T16:56:32","slug":"lionel-messi-signs-inter-miami-contract-extension-through-2028-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/23\/lionel-messi-signs-inter-miami-contract-extension-through-2028-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Lionel Messi signs Inter Miami contract extension through 2028 season"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Messi won MLS MVP in 2024, is favored to repeat<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Deal will keep him in Miami for new stadium opening<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Lionel Messi has signed a multi-year contract extension with Inter Miami, sealing a deal that will keep him in South Florida until the end of the 2028 MLS season. The contract is expected to be the last of his professional career.<\/p>\n<p>Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed in Miami\u2019s announcement on Thursday, but Messi has been MLS\u2019s highest-paid player by a distance since joining the club in the summer of 2023. His first deal paid him over $20m per year in guaranteed compensation \u2013 more the total payroll of about two-thirds of the 30-team league in 2025. His deal also includes equity in the club upon his retirement as a player.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/2025\/oct\/23\/lionel-messi-contract-extension-inter-miami\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Messi won MLS MVP in 2024, is favored to repeat Deal will keep him in Miami for new stadium opening Lionel Messi has signed a multi-year contract extension with Inter Miami, sealing a deal that will keep him in South Florida until the end of the 2028 MLS season. The contract is expected to be &#8230; <a title=\"Lionel Messi signs Inter Miami contract extension through 2028 season\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/23\/lionel-messi-signs-inter-miami-contract-extension-through-2028-season\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Lionel Messi signs Inter Miami contract extension through 2028 season\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55923\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}