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Lionel Messi's Inter Miami To Play Cristiano Ronaldo's Al Nassr In Saudi Arabia

Inter Miami and Al Nassr will contest an exhibition game in February 2024 in what could be the last on-pitch meeting between Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo.

Robert Summerscales

Lionel Messi's Inter Miami To Play Cristiano Ronaldo's Al Nassr In Saudi Arabia
Lionel Messi's Inter Miami To Play Cristiano Ronaldo's Al Nassr In Saudi Arabia /

Inter Miami and Al Nassr have agreed to contest an exhibition game in February 2024 in what could be the final on-pitch meeting between Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo.

The match, which is being billed as 'The Last Dance', will take place in Saudi Arabia.

For Miami, the game will serve as a pre-season friendly ahead of the 2024 Major League Soccer campaign.

However, the Saudi Pro League season runs from August to May, so the game will come in the middle of Al Nassr's 2023/24 program.

It is understood that 'The Last Dance' will take place as part of a mini-tournament called the 'Riyadh Season Cup', with Al-Hilal the other team set to be involved.

Ronaldo, 38, and Messi, 36, have faced off against each other 36 times in competitive matches and have shared one of the most iconic rivalries in soccer history.

Their most recent meeting on the pitch came in January this year when Messi helped his former club Paris Saint-Germain to a 5-4 win over a Riyadh all-star XI featuring players from Al-Hilal and Al Nassr.

Ronaldo scored twice in that game.

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Lionel Messi (left) and Cristiano Ronaldo pictured embracing during a friendly game between PSG and a Saudi Pro League all-star XI in January 2023
Lionel Messi (left) and Cristiano Ronaldo pictured embracing during a friendly game between PSG and a Riyadh all-star XI in January 2023 :: IMAGO/Power Sport Images/Stringer

Messi was offered the chance to move to Al-Hilal when his PSG contract expired last summer.

But he opted instead to move to Miami and went on to score 11 goals in his first 14 appearances for the Florida outfit.

Meanwhile, Ronaldo has netted 36 times in his first 42 games for Al Nassr.

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Robert Summerscales
ROBERT SUMMERSCALES

Robert Summerscales launched FanNation Futbol in February 2022. Rob is a British journalist who previously spent two years on the sports desk at the Daily Mail in London, having earlier served as editor of CaughtOffside.com. He has been to the last two FIFA Men's World Cups, in Russia and Qatar, and is looking forward to completing his hat-trick in North America in 2026.

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