Argentine superstar Lionel Messi has signed a contract extension at Major League Soccer (MLS) side Inter Miami.
Miami announced this in a post on X on Thursday.
The club posted a video of Messi signing a contract sitting at a table in the middle of the club’s new stadium, which is under construction.
“He’s home,” the caption read.
Football transfer expert Fabrizio Romano further disclosed that the new contract will see the 38-year-old World Cup-winner remain with Inter Miami through the end of the 2028 season.
His current contract expires at the end of the 2025 MLS season.
“Messi stays at Inter Miami for 3 more years,” Romano wrote on X.
Messi’s contract ensures he will remain in competitive action until and long after the 2026 World Cup hosted by the United States, Canada, and Mexico.
The tournament gets under way on June 11, with the final to be played at the MetLife Stadium in New Jersey on July 19, 2026.
Messi moved to Inter Miami in 2023 after an unhappy spell at Paris Saint-Germain (PSG), but the bulk of his stellar career was spent at Barcelona, where he played from 2004 to 2021 after coming through the youth system at the Spanish giants.
At Barcelona, he won the LaLiga title 10 times and lifted the UEFA Champions League trophy on four occasions.
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In 2022, he led Argentina to World Cup glory in Qatar and has expressed a desire to try to retain the trophy next year.
He has scored 114 international goals and also won the Copa America twice with Argentina, in 2021 and 2024.
He was named the MLS Most Valuable Player in the 2024 season even though Inter Miami were eliminated in the playoffs.
In 2025, he became the fastest player to reach 40 goals in MLS history.
This season, Messi has led Miami back into the playoffs after finishing in third place in the Eastern Conference.
The eight-time Ballon d’Or winner wrapped up Inter Miami’s regular season campaign with a superb hat-trick last Saturday in a 5-2 demolition of Nashville SC, leaving him with 29 goals from 28 matches to win MLS’s Golden Boot award.
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