“They are going to move as much or more than their parents” | Relief

Orlando.- On an opening day marked by heat, one of the highlights was Real Sociedad vs Inter Miami, the fifth match of the day in LaLiga FC Futures. Even before the ball started rolling, the news was already in the stands: the area reserved for families and fans was filled. Everyone was looking at Thiago Messi and Benjamin Suarez, children of Leo and Luis respectively. And also the team’s striker and winger. “Go, Thiago, go,” they shouted from the stands. They never called him by his last name. an unmistakable sign of personality that he had already demonstrated on the grass.

Thiago, with a “ten on his back”, started the game against Real Sociedad in the starting line-up.

as a forward reference. He asked for all the balls, ran into space and acted like a floating man in a straight game. All in one. Beña, as the team calls him, He came on as a substitute and was responsible for replacing Thiago. He jumped onto the field with 19 and soon left glimpses of its quality. He did it, yes, with the help a bandage on his right hand, repeating one of the main identifying marks of his father, and a left leg that exudes quality. He left the ball in the video game and stroked the goal, but Both were unable to tear down the wall of the growing Royal Society. And at times he managed to silence Inter Miami fans, who were the majority on the ESPN floor.

Thiago and Benya, in addition to the support of the fans, They were supported by Antonela Roccuzzo and Sofia Balbi, their mothers. They were missing along with the rest of the oil spill that filled the stadium’s main stands. Organizing the tournament gave them the space to keep an eye on their children from an isolated location opposite to where the rest of the people were. But they screamed and regretted their every action, as if they were just another fan.

“They are going to move as much or more than their parents.”they predict from the stands, aware of what it means for a team like Inter Miami (and some of the lower categories still in development) to have Leo and Luis’ children dress short in a tournament that features the best clubs in the world.

Thiago and Benya make a splash… without matching

“Intensity, intensity,” they demanded from the stands from all the Inter Miami players. Although both left flashes of quality, nor they met on the grass: When Thiago left, Benya entered and vice versa. They have no common ground, but Diego Garcia, the Spanish under-12 coach, has decided not to be the same.

In their debut in LaLiga FC Futures, Inter Miami went no further than a draw against a Real Sociedad side who were looking ahead to what awaited them at the tournament: rocky opponents, iron markings and an a priori unfavorable context for players with a more technical profile, such as Thiago and Beña, the most famous at that time.