Official Renewal: Messi Extends Contract with Inter Miami Until 2028

On Thursday evening, the American club “Inter Miami” announced the renewal of the contract with its Argentinian star, “Lionel Messi”.

The American team published a video on the “X” platform showing “Lionel Messi” signing the new contracts after reviewing them, without disclosing the duration of the contract.

In a surprise scene, the background of “Leo” was revealed to show “Freedom Park” stadium, the new home of the club, under construction.

The official account of the American Professional League revealed that “Lionel Messi” has signed a contract for three seasons, ending in December 2028.

The American network “ESPN” also indicated that “Inter Miami” intends to exploit the popularity of “Lionel Messi” to promote its new stadium, which will be completed and opened in 2026.

Under this new contract, “Lionel Messi”, the winner of the Ballon d’Or for the best player in the world eight times, a record, will continue in the ranks of the American club until he is 41 years old.

“Lionel Messi” is going against the path of his former Barcelona teammates, “Jordi Alba” and “Sergio Busquets”, who announced their retirement from football at the end of the 2025 season with “Inter Miami”.

The Argentinian star joined the American team in the summer of 2023 in a free transfer deal, after spending two years at Paris Saint-Germain, which he joined in the same way from Barcelona in the summer of 2021.

The Argentinian star, the 2022 World Cup champion, played 82 games wearing the “Inter Miami” jersey, scoring 71 goals with 36 assists, six goals from free kicks, four goals from penalty kicks, and won two titles with the club: the Leagues Cup and the Supporters’ Shield.

The football career of “Lionel Messi” remains exceptional by all standards, as he has scored more than 962 goals in 781 games with clubs, including 11 goals in 32 games with the youth and reserve teams in Barcelona.

With the first team of the Catalan club, “Lionel Messi” wrote a glorious history by scoring 672 goals in 778 games between 2004 and 2021, before moving to Paris Saint-Germain in the summer of 2021 in a free transfer deal, where he scored 32 goals in 75 games over two seasons.

At the international level, “Lionel Messi” scored 130 goals in 217 games with various categories of the Argentinian national team, including 14 goals in 18 games with the under-20 youth team, with which he won the 2005 FIFA Youth World Cup in the Netherlands, and two goals with the Olympic team in 5 games during the Olympic Games (Beijing 2008), in which he won the gold medal.

As for the first team, “Lionel Messi” scored 114 goals in 194 games, becoming the historical top scorer of his country’s national team by a large margin over his closest rivals.

Calculating his goals with clubs and national teams, the tally of “Lionel Messi” reaches 911 goals in 1181 official games.

“Lionel Messi” participated in five consecutive editions of the World Cup from the Germany 2006 edition to Qatar 2022, during which he played 26 games and scored 13 goals. The start was modest with one goal in 3 games in the 2006 World Cup, then he did not score in the 2010 World Cup in South Africa despite participating in 5 games.

In the 2014 World Cup in Brazil, “Lionel Messi” shone by scoring 4 goals in 7 games, and led his country’s team to the final, before losing to Germany with a fatal goal in extra time.

In the 2018 World Cup in Russia, “Lionel Messi” scored only one goal in 4 games, before shining in a legendary way in Qatar 2022 by scoring 7 goals in 7 games, leading Argentina to win the title absent since 1986, and achieving his biggest dream of raising the golden cup.

“Lionel Messi” was not satisfied with the World Cup, but also participated with Argentina in seven editions of the Copa América in 2007, 2011, 2015, 2016, 2019, 2021 and 2024.

Despite losing three Copa América finals in 2007, 2015 and 2016, he succeeded in breaking the knot of continental tournaments by winning the 2021 title in Brazil, then confirmed the superiority by adding the 2024 title.

During these participations, “Lionel Messi” scored 14 goals in 39 games, the most prominent of which was the 2016 centennial edition in the United States of America, where he scored 5 goals in 5 games.