Inter Miami co-chairman David Beckham celebrates when Lionel Messi joins the team. As a football player, Beckham knows how much pressure Messi has to face to pull the worn-out, poor-kicking ship of the penultimate team in the East region of this American professional league.
The former British player said that Messi needed time to change the American professional league, change Inter Miami. Messi’s “level” is at another level, extremely high and playing football from Europe.
Beckham, who is a former player of MU, Real Madrid, AC Milan, PSG, Los Angeles Galaxy, came to the training ground during Messi’s first training session in Inter Miami. Beckham became the focus of the press when talking about Messi. Beckham also pointed out that Messi’s little advantage is about Inter Miami, Messi has former Barcelona team-mate Sergio Busquets and coach Gerrado Martino.
When talking about the heavy task of the expected star Messi, Beckham commented: “Messi needs time, the problem now is not how well Messi plays, not too much pressure from his reputation. . Both Messi and Sergio need time to change teams, change the US league. It’s not that the presence of these two former Barcelona players means that they can win and the way they play is changing.”
Speaking of Inter Miami’s game against Cruz Azul in the League Cup this Friday, Beckham said: “It’s up to coach Martino. I personally see that in the past few days Messi has been busy with many things, but on the training ground he is very sharp, very fast and very amazing. When I went to LA Galaxy, people thought that the team had me, every time I played, I had to win, even win 7-0, 8-0, but don’t expect that, football is a team game, everyone things take time”.
When Beckham came to LA Galaxy, the California team couldn’t even compete for the championship in the first season. The East and West groups take the top two teams to fight for the championship of the whole tournament.
The 2007 and 2008 seasons LA Galaxy also did not win, but then everything changed and it was not until the 2011 and 2012 seasons that the team won the US championship twice, Beckham said that the first two years there, he only changed a lot of things. slowly and then win the championship.
Beckham also admits that the American professional league cannot be compared with the top European leagues, but everything takes time as Beckham himself experienced with LA Galaxy and now Messi also experiences it. Football is very different, a superstar doesn’t change everything. Beckham seemed to want to take the pressure off Messi himself and explain to the fans not to expect “fairy things” to come immediately to the team.
