After Saturday’s game in Minnesota, the former MLS MVP and his teammates get a break from their hectic schedule and won’t play another match until Aug. 2 in the Leagues Cup knockout stage.
LOS ANGELES — Images of Lionel Messi grocery shopping at a Publix in South Florida on Thursday made the rounds online, generating headlines, trending topics and bemusement.
A smile glided across the Los Angeles Football Club captain’s generally upbeat face as he thought of Messi contemplating such a thing in Barcelona, Paris or Buenos Aires. “When I came here it was one of the reasons,” he said after seven years with Real Sociedad, where he was among the best forwards in La Liga not named Messi or Ronaldo. “Sometimes people forget that you are a regular person. We want to be like that. The simple things. The small things make life easy, make life nice.”
While the soccer-watching world gazes at Messi buying cereal or scoring goals for Miami when the Leagues Cup begins on July 21, Vela intends to recharge as far away from soccer as he can.The team is off entirely through the 24th of July, making the most of a 17-day bye into the Leagues Cup knockout stage that it earned by winning the MLS Cup title last year.
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