Overview

• Lionel Messi and Inter Miami have added a stop in Japan to their preseason tour, where they will face Japanese league champion Vissel Kobe at the Japan National Stadium on Feb. 7.
• This will be the fourth match of a tour that includes games in Saudi Arabia on Jan. 29 and Feb. 1, and a game against a team of pro players from Hong Kong on Feb. 4.
• Inter Miami now has five preseason matches announced; there’s the four on the Saudi Arabia-Hong Kong-Japan trip and another in El Salvador on Jan. 19.
• The team will begin preseason training in early January and the Major League Soccer regular season is set to begin in February.
• Among those on the Vissel Kobe roster: Andrés Iniesta, who once teamed up with Messi and fellow Inter Miami players Sergio Busquets and Jordi Alba at Barcelona.