A long time Inter Miami reporter:
Before, I didn’t have much competition on this beat. Now, all of a sudden, I’m competing with the entire Argentine media scrum and they’re plugged in with Messi and his inner circle.
Makes perfect sense to me that argentine reporters have the inside story on Messi. Don’t know what he expected tbh. To many, he’s the goat after all.
It still sucks for him though
Well, this is kind of the point that I can appreciate gets lost on most external media.
MLS is a league that’s growing, but it’s day to day reportage is done almost exclusively by bloggers and people doing it as a hobby. This isn’t like the Premier League where you have Football Weekly, Totally Football, and a dozen or so newspapers paying guys six figures to cover things.
Those guys and girls are there week in week out, asking questions, in many cases holding teams accountable, and just in general telling good stories to maintain interest particularly among local supporters. I think it’s great Messi arrived, and he’ll boost the league significantly, but MLS has to be conscious of those that helped them keep things ticking over and laid some of the foundations.
I’ve seen it previously where a big star comes in and the bloggers can’t get 5 minutes with him, but oh look here’s 13-1500 words in the Daily Mail and a nice photo spread. You can’t create a tiered access system like that and expect consistent coverage.
I feel like you can’t really get upset about anything when the club has literally only existed for 5 years. Messi is literally bigger than the club and has been around longer.
“I feel like you can’t really get upset about anything when the club has literally only existed for 5 years.”
I honestly don’t understand this line of thought. It doesn’t take much time for people to get emotionally attached to something, particularly if they were around when that thing was beginning.
Remember that guy that threw up mid match? Yeah they need to whip their asses into shape. That defense needs to do stairs at least twice around the stadium.