{"id":101747,"date":"2026-01-07T00:47:18","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T04:47:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/messi-is-seen-as-the-owner-of-the-club-not-as-a-coach-after-his-retirement\/"},"modified":"2026-01-07T00:47:18","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T04:47:18","slug":"messi-is-seen-as-the-owner-of-the-club-not-as-a-coach-after-his-retirement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/soccer\/messi-is-seen-as-the-owner-of-the-club-not-as-a-coach-after-his-retirement\/","title":{"rendered":"Messi is seen as the owner of the club, not as a coach, after his retirement"},"content":{"rendered":"

Messi Envisions His Future: From the Field to Club Ownership<\/h2>\n\nArgentine star Lionel Messi, current captain of Inter Miami CF, has revealed his plans for after hanging up his boots. In an interview with Luzu TV, Messi shared his vision for the future, ruling out the idea of becoming a coach, but showing a great interest in the management and ownership of a club.\n\n\n
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“I don’t see myself as a coach. I like the idea of being a manager, but I would prefer to be an owner. I would like to have my own club, start from the bottom and make it grow. Being able to give the kids the opportunity to develop and achieve something important. If I had to choose, that’s what would attract me the most,” Messi stated.<\/p>\n\nLionel Messi<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\nThis statement comes at a time when Messi signed a contract extension with Inter Miami, ensuring his presence on the field for a few more years. However, the Argentinian is already exploring the world of property, partnering with his former teammate Luis Su\u00e1rez in the Deportivo LSM project, a team in the Uruguayan fourth division.\n\nThe club, whose initials represent Luis Su\u00e1rez and Messi, has a team of 80 professionals and more than 3,000 members. Su\u00e1rez expressed his desire to offer opportunities to young Uruguayan talents, a project that Messi has embraced with enthusiasm.\n\nAdditionally, Messi has launched the Messi Cup, a U-16 youth tournament that brought together eight academy teams from around the world in Miami, with the aim of fostering development and competition in grassroots football.\n\nThe River Plate was crowned champion of the first edition of the Messi Cup in December, defeating Atl\u00e9tico Madrid in the final. Meanwhile, Messi continues to focus on his career as a player, with Inter Miami starting the 2026 MLS season on February 21.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Messi Envisions His Future: From the Field to Club Ownership Argentine star Lionel Messi, current captain of Inter Miami CF, has revealed his plans for after hanging up his boots. In an interview with Luzu TV, Messi shared his vision for the future, ruling out the idea of becoming a coach, but showing a great […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":101748,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[11306,2123,256,152],"class_list":{"0":"post-101747","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-club-owner","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-lionel-messi","11":"tag-mls"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101747\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}