Overview
- The league’s referee body camera recorded Messi telling an official, “Foul… foul… No foul!?” during play.
- The clip was captured during Inter Miami’s 3–1 MLS Cup final victory over the Vancouver Whitecaps at Chase Stadium.
- Messi was involved in all three goals, starting the move that forced an own goal, dispossessing Andrés Cubas to launch another attack, and assisting Rodrigo De Paul with a through ball.
- Shared by football page 433 on X from MLS Ref Cam footage, the video quickly went viral as fans praised the intimate on-field perspective.
- Public uses of English by Messi are uncommon, a fact he has acknowledged previously and that teammate Julian Gressel has corroborated.