{"id":315414,"date":"2025-10-19T07:17:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-19T07:17:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/315414\/"},"modified":"2025-10-19T07:17:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-19T07:17:12","slug":"inter-miamis-lionel-messi-wins-2025-mls-golden-boot-presented-by-audi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/315414\/","title":{"rendered":"Inter Miami&#8217;s Lionel Messi wins 2025 MLS Golden Boot presented by Audi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The iconic No. 10 tallied 3g\/1a during Saturday&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/competitions\/mls-regular-season\/2025\/matches\/nshvsmia-10-18-2025\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">5-2 Decision Day victory<\/a> at Nashville, giving him 48 goal contributions this year \u2013 narrowly shy of Carlos Vela&#8217;s MLS-record 49 for LAFC in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>Now, Messi looks poised to become the league&#8217;s first-ever back-to-back Landon Donovan MLS MVP winner, following a historic 2024 campaign that helped Miami claim that year&#8217;s Supporters&#8217; Shield in record-breaking fashion.<\/p>\n<p>Messi and Miami are the Eastern Conference No. 3 seed in the Audi 2025 MLS Cup Playoffs, where they&#8217;ll face No. 6 Nashville in a Round One Best-of-3 Series. This year&#8217;s MLS Cup champion will be crowned on Dec. 6.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The iconic No. 10 tallied 3g\/1a during Saturday&#8217;s 5-2 Decision Day victory at Nashville, giving him 48 goal&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":315415,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[158629,51,6074,136049,5506,158630,50,158631,52],"class_list":{"0":"post-315414","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-golden-boot","9":"tag-headlines","10":"tag-inter-miami-cf","11":"tag-league-club-news","12":"tag-lionel-messi","13":"tag-mls-league-awards","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-nshvsmia-10-18-2025","16":"tag-top-stories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115399612455274676","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=315414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315414\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/315415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=315414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=315414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=315414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}