individual um on and off the field um he plays David Beckham now considers the United States to be his second home the former Real Madrid player is now co-owner of inter Miami meaning that he is viewing football through a different lens after spending 5 years as a player with the a Galaxy the fian's most audacious move to far was to sign Lon Messi and the English hope the Barcelona Legend can motivate the US MNT to victory in the World Cup in an interview with World Soccer talks hot ones challenge Beckham also disclosed how he persuaded the Argentina Captain to transfer from Paris St Germain to the Major League Soccer MLS where his contract that ended you could only negotiate contracts and Commercial matters so far from a player-to-player perspective I believe it has a significant impact I arrived as a player who had clearly transferred from Real Madrid to the Los Angeles Galaxy it's a gift in that I want to motivate the young children who will play in this nation in the future because the United States will eventually win the World Cup eventually and it's times like this when you bring someone as big as Leo both on and off the pitch he performs well he embodies the ideal professional therefore if you bring someone like him all of the young children who are watching Across America will be motivated as they watch him in their cities and stadiums and that was our true goal in doing it Messi signed with inter Miami in June 2023 and a month after joining the squad won the leagues cup the herens are now leading the Eastern Conference by eight points and the overall MLS standings by four demonstrating that their upward trend has continued this year it was rather challenging to compete for his signature based just on financial grounds however we had our city and everything that entails it's a location where his family may enjoy themselves Miami a multilingual city is The Unofficial capital of the United States in a 2023 interview with the times ma stated I think that was something that was extremely attractive for lonol given that the majority of the population has Hispanic routs from South and Central America less than 2 years before the usmnt together with Mexico and Canada hosts the 2026 World Cup beckam would not disclose when he believed the team will win [Music]