On January 9, Messi and his teammates at Inter Miami returned to training to prepare for the 2025 MLS season. The team, chaired and co-owned by David Beckham, has just added a surprising tour match.

According to AS (Spain), Messi and his teammates at Inter Miami will have a very surprising tour in Peru with Club Universitario scheduled to take place on January 25. This match schedule has been confirmed. Thereby, it will become the team’s overseas tour before the new season, after 2 matches only taking place in the United States.

Specifically, Inter Miami will begin its training session with a match against Club America (Mexico) at Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas, which has a capacity of up to 65,000 spectators, taking place on January 18. Tickets for this match have now increased to $100/ticket, according to journalist Jose Armando of Deporte Total USA .

The next match Messi and his teammates will play in the United States is against Orlando City at Raymond James Stadium on February 14. However, this match will now take place immediately after Inter Miami’s newly scheduled tour match in Peru against Universitario (January 25 at Monumental de Peru), according to AS .

This is the first time David Beckham’s team has played in this country, showing the great interest of fans here. Above all, it is the presence of Messi, Suarez, Sergio Busquets and Jordi Alba, the top stars who continue to play for Inter Miami in the new season.

After the pre-season tour and training, Messi and Inter Miami will enter the first very important official match of the CONCACAF Champions Cup in the first round of the team against Sporting Kansas City with 2 matches including the first leg on February 18 and the second leg on February 25. Before that, on February 22, they will play the opening match of MLS 2025 (American professional soccer league) against New York City FC at home at Chase Stadium.

This is an extremely busy and demanding schedule, Messi and his teammates are expected to return to training on January 10. However, the 37-year-old Argentine player returned to training 2 days early. He and Suarez also trained with their personal fitness coach nearly a week ago while in Argentina during the New Year holiday.

Messi still has a contract with Inter Miami until the end of the 2025 season, in which in addition to participating in tournaments such as MLS, CONCACAF Champions Cup, Leagues Cup. This famous player and his teammates also participate in the FIFA Club World Cup in mid-June.

Billionaire Jorge Mas, co-owner of Inter Miami with David Beckham, once again confirmed his intention to sit down with Messi soon to negotiate activating the extension clause until 2026 and signing at least one more year extension when the famous player turns 40 in 2027.