{"id":2236,"date":"2025-12-10T05:26:29","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T05:26:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=2236"},"modified":"2025-12-10T05:26:29","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T05:26:29","slug":"lionel-messi-inter-miami-forward-named-mls-most-valuable-player-for-second-successive-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=2236","title":{"rendered":"Lionel Messi: Inter Miami forward named MLS Most Valuable Player for second successive season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The MLS MVP award has been presented since 1996 and is voted for by MLS club technical staff, media, and current players.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Messi won more than 70% of the vote, while his nearest challenger, San Diego winger Anders Dreyer, had just over 11%.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The former Barcelona and Paris St-Germain star adds the prize to a list of personal accolades, which include the 2022 World Cup, three The Best Fifa Men&#8217;s Player awards, and two World Cup Golden Balls. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Messi has also claimed three Uefa Men&#8217;s Player of the Year awards, six European Golden Shoes, six La Liga Best Player recognitions, eight Pichichi Trophies as Spanish football&#8217;s top scorer, and 15 Argentine Footballer of the Year awards.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He has yet to confirm, though, whether he will feature for Argentina in the 2026 World Cup, which will be held in United States, Canada and Mexico.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/articles\/cr7l0k0p4v0o?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The MLS MVP award has been pre&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2237,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[251],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2236"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2236\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}