Orlando.- On an opening day marked by heat, one of the highlights came with Real Sociedad – Inter Miami, the fifth match of the day in LaLiga FC Futures. The news, before the ball started rolling, was in the stands: the space set aside for families and fans was full. Everyone looked at Thiago Messi and Benjamín Suárez, children of Leo and Luis respectively. And, also, forward and winger of the team. “Come on, Thiago, come on,” they shouted from the stands. At no time did they refer to him by his last name, unmistakable sign of a personality that he has already demonstrated on the green.
Thiago, with the ’10 on his back’, started the game against Real Sociedad in the starting eleven, as a reference forward. He asked for all the balls, ran into space and acted as a buoy man in direct play. All in one. Benja, as he is referred to in the team, He started as a substitute and was in charge of relieving Thiago. He jumped onto the field with the 19 and soon left glimpses of his quality. She did it, yes, with a bandage on his left hand, replicating one of his father’s main identifying marks, and a left leg that exudes quality. He let video game dribbles and caressed the goal, but Both were unable to tear down the wall of a Royal Society that grew. And he managed to silence, at times, the chants of the Inter Miami fans, the majority at the ESPN venue.
Thiago and Benja, in addition to the encouragement of the fans, They had the support of Antonela Roccuzzo and Sofia Balbi, their mothers. They were not with the rest of the oil spill that filled the main stands of the stadium. The organization of the tournament provided them with a space so that they could follow their children from an isolated point, opposite to where the rest of the people were. But they screamed and regretted every action as if they were just another fan.
“They are going to move as much or more than the parents”they predict from the stands, aware of what it means for a team like Inter Miami (and some lower categories still in development) that the children of Leo and Luis dress short in a tournament in which the best clubs in the world participate.
Thiago and Benja unleash the furor… without coinciding
“Intensity, intensity,” they demanded from all the Inter Miami players from the stands. Although both left flashes of quality, nor they met on the grass: When Thiago left, Benja entered and vice versa. They do not share a position, but Diego García, Spanish coach of the under-12 team, chose not to make them coincide.
In their debut in LaLiga FC Futures, Inter Miami did not go beyond a draw against a Real Sociedad team that anticipated what they will find in the tournament: rocky rivals, iron markings and an a priori unfavorable context for players with a more technical profile like Thiago and Benja, the most acclaimed of the day.
