{"id":18626,"date":"2025-07-25T21:38:16","date_gmt":"2025-07-26T01:38:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/messi-and-alba-suspended-for-missing-the-mls-all-star-game\/"},"modified":"2025-07-25T21:38:16","modified_gmt":"2025-07-26T01:38:16","slug":"messi-and-alba-suspended-for-missing-the-mls-all-star-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/nationals\/messi-and-alba-suspended-for-missing-the-mls-all-star-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Messi and Alba, suspended for missing the MLS All-Star Game"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>MLS Sanctions Messi and Alba for Absence from All-Star Game<\/h2>\n\nMajor League Soccer (MLS) has announced the suspension of Lionel Messi and Jordi Alba, players of Inter Miami, due to their absence from the recent All-Star Game against a combined team from Liga MX.\n\nBoth soccer players, officially summoned for the event, withdrew hours before the commitment without presenting a prior medical justification, which led to the application of sanctions according to the league regulations.\n\nAs a result, Messi and Alba will not be able to participate in Inter Miami&#8217;s next match against FC Cincinnati this Saturday.\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>We have a long-standing policy regarding participation in the All-Star Game, and we had to enforce it.<\/p><cite>Don Garber, MLS Commissioner<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\nInter Miami co-owner Jorge Mas expressed his disagreement with the measure and revealed that Messi is upset with the suspension. Mas requested a review of the current policy.\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>The rule needs to be modified. Lionel and Jordi acted according to the needs of the team.<\/p><cite>Jorge Mas, Co-owner of Inter Miami<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\nMLS commissioner Don Garber acknowledged that Inter Miami&#8217;s schedule has been particularly demanding, with Messi participating in nine matches in just 35 days, including the FIFA Club World Cup.\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Miami has had a schedule unlike any other team&#8217;s. We must manage that as a league.<\/p><cite>Don Garber, MLS Commissioner<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\nGarber also indicated that the rule will be reviewed in the future, in collaboration with the Players Association.\n\nInter Miami&#8217;s technical staff, led by Javier Mascherano, had already expressed their concern about the players&#8217; physical load and preferred that Messi and Alba not participate in the All-Star Game.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MLS Sanctions Messi and Alba for Absence from All-Star Game Major League Soccer (MLS) has announced the suspension of Lionel Messi and Jordi Alba, players of Inter Miami, due to their absence from the recent All-Star Game against a combined team from Liga MX. Both soccer players, officially summoned for the event, withdrew hours before [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[997],"tags":[257,1427,152,110],"class_list":{"0":"post-18626","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-nationals","7":"tag-inter-miami","8":"tag-messi","9":"tag-mls","10":"tag-suspension"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18626","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=18626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18626\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}