“The greatest soccer player of all time has entered the farewell-tour phase of his career,” jodyrosen writes, about Lionel Messi. “It is fitting that he is playing out what may be his final chapter in Miami.”
It is fitting that he is playing out what may be his final chapter in Miami.Where better to stroll into the sunset than South Florida, whose blue coastlines, low taxes, and early-bird specials have exerted a magnetic pull on generations of retirees? Of course, few Florida transplants have enjoyed a welcome-wagon reception like Messi’s.
Holy, perhaps. Mammon is also in the mix. For months, rumors swirled that Messi would join the recent exodus of soccer stars to the Saudi pro league; according to news reports, Messi turned down a deal from the Saudi club Al Hilal which would have paid some $1.6 billion over three years. Messi’s Inter Miami contract, which runs through 2025, is worth a mere fifty million to sixty million dollars per year. The decision to join M.L.S.
Meanwhile, commentators have cast Messi’s move as a watershed, destined to change the history of soccer in the United States. At a press conference on Tuesday, the M.L.S. commissioner, Dan Garber, called Messi’s début “a transformational moment.” In fact, the arrival in the U.S. of an aging
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