Inter Miami‘s president of soccer operations Raúl Sanllehí is not in command of sporting issues and has been changed by the membership’s academy director Guillermo Hoyos, a sources confirmed to ESPN.
The information was first reported by GiveMeSport. Sanllehí has been reassigned inside the Inter Miami group.
GiveMeSport’s report detailed how through the staff’s current journey to Las Vegas, Sanllehí entered a bus containing Miami gamers and employees, and was confronted by star ahead Lionel Messi and the 2 had an “trade of phrases.”
Inter Miami did not reply to a request for remark from ESPN, however in an announcement to GiveMeSport, a spokesperson stated, “Raúl’s transfer was pre-planned, in coordination with the closing of the window on the finish of January and the numerous actions that the staff has with the Membership World Cup, World Cup and different issues pertaining to institutional relations.”
A supply informed ESPN that Inter Miami employees was knowledgeable of the choice to advertise Hoyos final Thursday.
Hoyos, 61, has had an itinerant managerial profession, one which has seen him coach over a dozen groups throughout Europe and South America in addition to a short stint in 2015 with the Jacksonville Armada, then of the North American Soccer League. Extra critically, he has a protracted historical past with Messi, having coached the participant when he was with Barcelona’s under-18 staff from 2000-03, with Messi stating in a 2010 interview that Hoyos was his “footballing dad.”
Hoyos was employed as director of methodology of Miami’s academy shortly after Messi arrived. Sanllehí was employed simply final summer time, hastening the departure of sporting director Chris Henderson to Atlanta United, and director of scouting Mark Prizant to San Diego FC.
The transfer speaks to Messi’s continued affect in entrance workplace issues. Longtime teammate Javier Mascherano was employed to handle the staff for 2025 following the departure of Tata Martino after the tip of the 2024 marketing campaign.
Miami proprietor Jorge Mas had confirmed that Messi had “enter” within the hiring of Mascherano.
