Inter Miami to visit White House next week to mark MLS Cup win

Inter Miami will visit the White House on Thursday, March 5 to mark the group’s MLS Cup win, in accordance to a White House official.

The White House official, responding to a question in regards to the plans from TheAthleticspoke on situation of anonymity and was not licensed to be named publicly.

A consultant of Lionel Messi didn’t reply when requested whether or not the Argentina worldwide will be part of, however the journey has been scheduled forward of the group’s sport towards DC United on Saturday, March 7. Inter Miami didn’t reply to a request for remark.

Should he attend, the event would mark the primary time Messi has visited the White House. The file eight-time Ballon d’Or winner was invited to obtain the presidential medal of freedom from former President Joe Biden in January 2025, however he was unable to attend.

Cristiano Ronaldo attended a black tie dinner on the White House in November, on the identical day US President Donald Trump hosted Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman within the Oval Office. Messi’s visit would imply President Trump has met the 2 soccer gamers thought-about the best of their era forward of this summer season’s World Cup, which the United States is co-hosting alongside Canada and Mexico.

Championship-winning MLS groups have commonly been invited to attend the White House, as is customary throughout many US professional and school sports activities, with Columbus Crew the final MLS aspect to achieve this in 2024.

Miami proprietor David Beckham attended the White House with the LA Galaxy in 2012 after profitable the 2011 MLS Cup.

The information of Miami’s visit to the White House comes amid the ongoing fallout from the gold medal-winning US hockey team’s own visit to Washington earlier this week which has prompted questions in regards to the politicalization of the group’s win on the Winter Olympics and their affiliation with Trump, and comes forward of the convening of a panel on the future of college sports scheduled for the following day which the President himself is predicted to chair.

Miami received the 2025 MLS Cup in November with victory over Vancouver, marking the group’s first MLS Cup triumph for the reason that group entered MLS in 2020.

Messi, 38, joined the membership in the summertime of 2023.