NEWS
Lionel Messi set to play at the home of Travis Kelce, Patrick Mahomes and the Kansas City Chiefs with 70,000 fans bound for Arrowhead Stadium tonight for Inter Miami vs Sporting KC
Tickets are available on resale sites from around $120 and it remains to be seen if any of the Chiefs stars will be turning up at Arrowhead in their offseason to see Messi play.
Kelce, who was in Cincinnati midweek to host a live version of his New Heights podcast, is rumored to be attending Coachella either this weekend or next with girlfriend Taylor Swift.
Miami enters Saturday’s game third in the Eastern Conference with 12 points from eight games, two points behind early leaders New York Red Bulls. Messi has scored four goals in four MLS appearances so far this season.
For Sporting KC, seventh in the Western Conference, head coach Peter Vermes admitted it will be hard for his team to treat the game like any other.
‘It will be a great venue for a game like this,’ Vermes said Thursday. ‘There are guys (on SKC) who have never played in front of a crowd that size. But at the end of the day, we have a game to play.
‘I’ve watched (Messi) play since he was very young. I don’t know any team or any coach that has ever devised a game plan that has nullified his unbelievable qualities.’
Many at Arrowhead on Saturday night will hope Vermes fails to find a way, too.