Futbol Americas: Messi's Minor Muscle Injury

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4.2 • 2.5K Ratings

🗓️ 5 August 2025

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Cristina Alexander, Herculez Gomez and Alejandro Moreno break down Lionel Messi's injury and explain how the overloaded MLS schedule played a role in the absence. Plus, the crew debate if Angel Correa is the most talented player in Liga MX and react to Sergino Dest's winning goal for PSV. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	A very happy Monday to you all.
0:11.1	Welcome to Football Americas.
0:12.4	He is Alejandro Moreno.
0:13.7	He is Hercules Gomez.
0:14.8	I'm Christina Alexander.
0:17.2	I like this jersey.
0:18.2	Yeah, thank you.
0:18.8	Nice color.
0:19.8	Must be nice. How is that related to Football Americas? It's a this jersey. Yeah, thank you. Nice color. How is that related to football America's? It's a football jersey. How is that related to football America? What do you mean? Isn't that Porto? Yeah. All right. First complaint. First of all, no, can I just say? You gotta be a ray of positive, you're a ray of sunshine. No, I was about to say that. I was about 30 seconds we go on air. I get this passive-aggressive attitude from you both, Ray or Sunshine, just because I asked a very simple question that you guys didn't have the answer that I wanted. That's all. Wow. And that does not be long in football America. Let me tell you, so football Americas, it's football culture. So it doesn't matter where the football comes from. When it comes to the kids, we are there. Oh, is it Americans? Or is it everywhere? It's Stacios jersey. Oh, all right. Okay. There's a connection. Thank you. You were quizzing him. Thank you. What if there was a Miguel? And it is not a Staccus jersey. He didn't show up that day. The magic of television, everyone. Speaking of magic, because Elvino Des had some magic in the Dutch Super Cup helping them win. We're going to break that all down.
1:27.8	And also an epic showdown in the USL League 2 final.
1:31.8	We will of course break that down.
1:33.8	But first, what about the Portuguese League?
1:35.8	We're not covering them?
1:36.8	No.
1:37.8	Not since Martin Auxelmi left.
1:38.8	Not yet.
1:39.8	We will talk about some Brazilians in around Madrid, by the way.
1:43.3	But we're going to start with some not so great news for Inner Miami, not result-wise, but when it comes to Lionel, Messi, Hayders, Rodrigo de Paul.
1:53.0	Take the field here in the Leaks Cup round two. They won their first game against Atlas, but before this game was even over inner Miami's
2:01.1	he was always already suffering.
2:04.6	Oh no Leo no no Lee.
2:07.6	For favor Leo get up.
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