Inter Miami Wins Supporter Shield but Falls Short of Goals

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00:00Inter Miami won the Supporters' Shield.

00:06Yes, I mean, you held that trophy before physically when LAFC won it back in 2019.

00:12I did it myself, heavy trophy, but does this mean much to what Inter Miami wanted to do?

00:17I mean, honestly, it doesn't.

00:18You know, obviously, the Supporters' Shield, it means a lot because it comes from the team

00:22that gets the most points in the league, but at the end of the day, they have Messi.

00:26I think that everybody thought that Miami was going to bring everything.

00:29Leagues Cup, MLS Cup, and not just the Supporters' Shield.

00:32I think the Supporters' Shield for them, for the team they have, it's not a lot.

00:37It was expected.

00:38It was expected for them to win everything, but they did not.

00:42And I think that they struggled a lot.

00:44I called it here in my picks, and I want to brag a little bit more.

00:48I also said that it was going to be an LA versus New York final.

00:51Unfortunately for me, it was LA Galaxy.

00:53Wrong LA.

00:54It was more of a Carson-Jersey.

00:55I said Los Angeles versus New York City.

00:57Yeah, he's going to start with the Carson versus Jersey final.

01:00He's rather forward versus, you know, but anyway, so Inter-Miami does not succeed in

01:05that.

01:06In your opinion, guys, where does this leave the project, the Messi 2.0 project in Major

01:11League Soccer?

01:12To Nick's point, when you put together a team with young players like Peck, and with proven

01:18MLS journeymen like Jobeleek and some other in the back line that were proven talent,

01:25and a coach that is proud of the crest, and an executive like Will Koontz that comes and

01:31brings together, I was just reading that he was pushing for LAFC to bring Peck.

01:37And they passed on him.

01:39Well they passed on Will.

01:40They passed on Will.

01:41Yeah, but look, Miami's still got time to learn and grow from all of this, right?

01:45The kind of experience and the kind of growing pains that other squads like the Galaxy or

01:49you know, others have had.

01:50So you know, they'll take this with them.

01:52And this is a great start, and this is a great base to jump off from.

01:55My concern is that Miami might be becoming Messi's clubhouse.

01:59You know, the appointment of Macerano makes sense because he's played with a lot of, you

02:03know, he's trained a lot of these players in the sub-20 national Argentinian team.

02:08And he's a coach that has a lot of projection in the youth level, but the MLS is not the

02:14type of place anymore where you can come and experiment.

02:17Even well-established coaches have come here and faced that this league is no joke.

02:22Well, Macerano played for Barcelona.

02:24Same with Messi and some of his teammates like Luis Suarez, Jordi Alba, Busquets, etc.

02:28But let's talk about Real Madrid.

02:30Let's talk about our driver of Barcelona.

02:34What a game by Pachuca, by the way.

02:36Winningest coach in the history of the Meninges with 15 titles.

02:39Man, that game, Pachuca-Real Madrid, I'm telling you, it was 3-0, but the game itself

02:44showed a strong Pachuca.

02:45I think the first 35, 36 minutes, Pachuca was dominating the game.

02:49I don't know if Real Madrid was just kicking back, you know.

02:52But at the end of the day, they were really good.

02:53I think they represented Mexico pretty well.

02:55I mean, for them to only lose 3-0 versus Real Madrid, it's not that easy.

03:00And winning against Bocatafogo and Il-Ahal, I think that it shows that Pachuca has done

03:05many times in the past on the international level.

03:08For me, is the best representative of Mexican soccer at the club level in the international

03:14scene.

03:15They've done amazing performance in every international play.

03:17Yeah, and you touched on something really important there.

03:20Pachuca just getting to that point in the beginning, the kind of hurdles they had to

03:22jump to just to face Madrid in the first place was absolutely amazing.

03:26And they played great, as you said in the beginning.

03:28After Mbappe scored, Real Madrid didn't look back and they were kind of unable to answer

03:33back.

03:34But they were looking really strong.

03:35And I actually had high hopes for them coming into the match against Madrid.

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