Monterrey v Inter Miami — Concacaf Champions Cup quarter-final and its aftermath
ESPN · 2024-04
Originating source for the Concacaf fine wording and for the anonymous account of a tunnel confrontation.
Major League Soccer (MLS)
Also known as: MLS
The U.S./Canada top division; Inter Miami’s league. Imposes discipline separately from Leagues Cup.
Timeline appearances
- 2023-09-27Inter Miami & MLSInter Miami loses 2023 U.S. Open Cup final without Messi and misses the 2023 MLS playoffs
- 2024-10-02Inter Miami & MLSInter Miami clinches 2024 Supporters' Shield on October 2 and sets 74-point regular-season record on October 19
- 2024-10-25Inter Miami & MLSNo. 1 seed Inter Miami eliminated by No. 9 Atlanta United in Round One best-of-three
- 2025-05-18Inter Miami & MLSMessi criticizes MLS officiating after home loss to Orlando City
- 2025-08-31Inter Miami & MLSLeagues Cup Organizing Committee suspends players and a coach after the final's post-match altercation
- 2025-09-08Inter Miami & MLSMLS imposes its own separate discipline for the Leagues Cup final altercation
- 2025-12-06Inter Miami & MLSInter Miami wins 2025 MLS Cup; Messi named MLS Cup MVP and 2025 Landon Donovan MLS MVP
- 2026-03-03Inter Miami & MLSInter Miami's 2026 season to date — new stadium, naming rights, Messi's 900th goal, and early continental elimination
Relationships
Concacaf → MLS (via U.S. Soccer, not separately mapped) — Concacaf
MLS → Inter Miami CF (member club) — Inter Miami CF
Sources
- Independent sources:
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- Total references:
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Inter Miami CF forward Lionel Messi named 2025 Landon Donovan MLS Most Valuable Player for second consecutive season
Major League Soccer · 2025-12-09
Lionel Messi has been named the 2025 Landon Donovan MLS Most Valuable Player, becoming the first player in league history to win the award in consecutive seasons.
Live URL dead as of the 2026-07-20 link check (404). NO archive copy is available: an Internet Archive availability query and a CDX index query for this URL both return zero captures, so no archiveUrl is recorded rather than a substitute or reconstructed link. The accessStatus and retrievedDate are unchanged: the page WAS retrieved on 2026-07-17 (§35.2), and the exactExcerpt above is what was captured from it then. Until a capture or a replacement MLS publication is located, the excerpt is held on this record alone and is not independently confirmed.
Explicit limitations
- MLS's historical secondary-assist methodology not fully verified; ESPN/Opta independently cite 16 assists, so the figure appears to be primary assists.
- EDITORIAL NOTE: Inter Miami EARNED the Supporters' Shield on the field. FIFA SEPARATELY SELECTED Inter Miami as host representative (see MIA-008 / the Club World Cup host-berth case file). These are two distinct propositions and are not to be merged into a causal claim; commercial motivation is a reasonable inference, not a documented official rationale.
- Whether MLS conducted a non-public internal review — NOT FOUND (distinct from "no violation found").
- Full text of the committee's reasoning NOT retrieved.
- Phase 8 §22 rules that the addendum's unverified "stomping" detail is NOT carried into the consolidated finding; it is therefore omitted from this record.
- Exact live MLS standings on 2026-07-17 not pinned to an official table (a mid-May 2026 snapshot had Miami ~2nd in the East, Nashville leading); any reported dollar valuation of the Nubank deal is unofficial.
- A SEPARATE 2026 referee-area incident (Messi reportedly cleared, the door "did not lead to the officials' dressing room") is distinct from MIA-032; teammate Ian Fray was reportedly fined for 2026 referee criticism. These 2026 discipline items are DEVELOPING and not fully verified against official MLS pages this session.