
Messi ignites Miami's CWC with stunning winner
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created: June 20, 2025, 3:36 p.m. | updated: June 20, 2025, 7:42 p.m.
Check out the best stats as Lionel Messi scores his 50th goal for Inter Miami, who take down FC Porto in Club World Cup Group A.
(1:07)Open Extended ReactionsLionel Messi scored his first goal of the expanded Club World Cup on Thursday with a patented free kick, giving Inter Miami a historic 2-1 win over two-time European champion FC Porto on Thursday.
"It was a great effort from the whole team," Messi told DAZN.
It was also Messi's 50th Miami goal in all competitions, in his 61st appearance.
"[Messi] is the player that leads us in the ways we have to compete," Miami head coach Javier Mascherano told reporters.
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