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[The Guardian] ‘I’m happy. I have friends who are not’: What Inter Miami lost with Messi (www.theguardian.com)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

It still sucks for him though

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

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.