{"id":31139,"date":"2025-09-03T15:37:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T19:37:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/orlando-city-protests-refereeing-in-loss-to-messis-inter-miami\/"},"modified":"2025-09-03T15:37:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T19:37:06","slug":"orlando-city-protests-refereeing-in-loss-to-messis-inter-miami","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/soccer\/orlando-city-protests-refereeing-in-loss-to-messis-inter-miami\/","title":{"rendered":"Orlando City Protests Refereeing in Loss to Messi&#8217;s Inter Miami"},"content":{"rendered":"Orlando City has filed a formal complaint with the Leagues Cup Organizing Committee, expressing its dissatisfaction with the refereeing during the semi-final match against Inter Miami at Chase Stadium. This was confirmed by a club spokesperson.\n\nThe match, played on August 27, culminated in Inter Miami&#8217;s 3-1 victory over Orlando City. Lionel Messi scored two goals, while Telasco Segovia contributed another. The match was marked by intensity and rivalry between the Florida teams, resulting in seven yellow cards, four for Inter Miami and three for Orlando City.\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><p>Messi&#8217;s magic drives Miami to the Leagues Cup final.<\/p><\/li><li><p>Su\u00e1rez, from Miami, apparently spits at a Seattle staff member.<\/p><\/li><li><p>Seattle defeats Messi&#8217;s Miami to win the Leagues Cup.<\/p><\/li><\/ul>\n\nDavid Brekalo, Orlando City defender, received two yellow cards and a red card, being sent off in the 75th minute. Orlando captain, Robin Jansson, was sanctioned with a red card after the final whistle for verbally insulting the referee, according to the Leagues Cup disciplinary committee.\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a1.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2025%2F0903%2Fr1540550_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"><figcaption>Orlando City present\u00f3 una queja oficial por las decisiones del \u00e1rbitro Walter L\u00f3pez en su semifinal de la Leagues Cup contra Inter Miami. Megan Briggs\/Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\nOrlando City tried to appeal Jansson&#8217;s red card, but without success. Both Brekalo and Jansson were unable to participate in the Leagues Cup third-place match against LA Galaxy, which the South Florida team lost 2-1.\n\nInter Miami subsequently lost the Leagues Cup final against Seattle Sounders, with a score of 3-0, and an altercation broke out after the final whistle.\n\nThe Leagues Cup Organizing Committee will review the incidents at the end of the match and proceed accordingly, according to a tournament spokesperson.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Orlando City has filed a formal complaint with the Leagues Cup Organizing Committee, expressing its dissatisfaction with the refereeing during the semi-final match against Inter Miami at Chase Stadium. This was confirmed by a club spokesperson. The match, played on August 27, culminated in Inter Miami&#8217;s 3-1 victory over Orlando City. Lionel Messi scored two [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31140,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[257,6519,1427,2505],"class_list":{"0":"post-31139","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-inter-miami","9":"tag-leagues-cup","10":"tag-messi","11":"tag-orlando-city"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31139","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=31139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31139\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}