{"id":67011,"date":"2026-02-22T16:55:35","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T21:55:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/22\/lionel-messis-referee-confrontation-in-tunnel-did-not-violate-policy-mls-says\/"},"modified":"2026-02-22T16:55:35","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T21:55:35","slug":"lionel-messis-referee-confrontation-in-tunnel-did-not-violate-policy-mls-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/22\/lionel-messis-referee-confrontation-in-tunnel-did-not-violate-policy-mls-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Lionel Messi\u2019s referee confrontation in tunnel did not violate policy, MLS says"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Miami star confronted officials in a doorway after 3-0 loss<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>League determined area was not off-limits to players<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>MLS has suspended players for entering officials\u2019 room<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Major League Soccer has cleared Lionel Messi of wrongdoing after the Argentinian appeared to pursue match officials after Inter Miami\u2019s season-opening loss to LAFC on Saturday evening.<\/p>\n<p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/gioxguerrero\/status\/2025450930628649228\">video posted to X by S\u00edntesis Deportes reporter Giovanni Guerrero<\/a>, Messi appears to confront match officials as they entered a doorway within the LA Coliseum after the match, a 3-0 win for LAFC. Miami forward Luis Su\u00e1rez is seen restraining Messi, who slips out of his teammate\u2019s grip and disappears behind a door. He emerged seconds later and retreated with Su\u00e1rez to Miami\u2019s locker room.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/2026\/feb\/22\/lionel-messi-inter-miami-referee-confrontation-investigation\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Miami star confronted officials in a doorway after 3-0 loss League determined area was not off-limits to players MLS has suspended players for entering officials\u2019 room Major League Soccer has cleared Lionel Messi of wrongdoing after the Argentinian appeared to pursue match officials after Inter Miami\u2019s season-opening loss to LAFC on Saturday evening. In a &#8230; <a title=\"Lionel Messi\u2019s referee confrontation in tunnel did not violate policy, MLS says\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/22\/lionel-messis-referee-confrontation-in-tunnel-did-not-violate-policy-mls-says\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Lionel Messi\u2019s referee confrontation in tunnel did not violate policy, MLS says\">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-67011","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\/67011","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=67011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67011\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}