{"id":17954,"date":"2025-07-23T16:17:50","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T20:17:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/messi-and-alba-absent-from-the-mls-all-star-game-why-wont-they-play\/"},"modified":"2025-07-23T16:17:50","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T20:17:50","slug":"messi-and-alba-absent-from-the-mls-all-star-game-why-wont-they-play","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/nationals\/messi-and-alba-absent-from-the-mls-all-star-game-why-wont-they-play\/","title":{"rendered":"Messi and Alba, absent from the MLS All-Star Game: Why won&#8217;t they play?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Messi and Alba miss the MLS All-Star Game<\/h2>\n\nThe Argentinian star Lionel Messi and the Spanish left-back Jordi Alba, both Inter Miami players, will not participate in the Major League Soccer (MLS) All-Star Game against the Liga MX stars.\n\nMLS confirmed the absence of both players from the official rosters for the match, which will be held at Q2 Stadium in Austin, Texas.\n\nAlthough Messi and Alba were initially included in the list of those summoned, they will finally not be present. The MLS did not specify the reasons for their absence.\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/e00-marca.uecdn.es\/assets\/multimedia\/imagenes\/2024\/07\/25\/17113713021571.jpg\" alt=\"Messi y Jordi Alba\" title=\"\"><\/figure>\n\n\nThe participation of both Inter Miami players was in doubt after missing the training sessions prior to the match. Alba also planned to compete in the skills competition.\n\nIn other cases of players who will not be in the All-Star game, MLS did reveal the reasons for their absence.\n\nIn 2018, Zlatan Ibrahimovic was suspended for one match for not attending the All-Star game, unless a player is injured.\n\nMessi also missed last season&#8217;s All-Star, citing an injury.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Messi and Alba miss the MLS All-Star Game The Argentinian star Lionel Messi and the Spanish left-back Jordi Alba, both Inter Miami players, will not participate in the Major League Soccer (MLS) All-Star Game against the Liga MX stars. MLS confirmed the absence of both players from the official rosters for the match, which will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17955,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[997],"tags":[1308,257,1427,152],"class_list":{"0":"post-17954","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nationals","8":"tag-all-star","9":"tag-inter-miami","10":"tag-messi","11":"tag-mls"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17954","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=17954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17954\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}