The anticipated go to of Lionel Messi to Gillette Stadium subsequent month is about to interrupt the New England Revolution‘s long-standing single-game attendance document with over 60,000 tickets already offered for the matchup with Inter Miami, New England introduced Wednesday.
Lower than 5,000 tickets stay for the April 27 MLS conflict, the Revs mentioned. The determine is properly on observe to surpass the membership’s earlier attendance document of 61,316 set for the 2002 MLS Cup, when New England hosted the LA Galaxy.
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The earlier regular-season attendance document for a Revolution dwelling sport dates again to 1997 ,when New England hosted the Tampa Bay Mutiny in a doubleheader with a World Cup Qualifying match between Mexico and the United States.
Gillette Stadium, which additionally hosts six-time Tremendous Bowl winners the New England Patriots, opened in 2002. The document for a Revolution regular-season match on the stadium was 42,947 in 2015.
Final season, the Patriots’ common dwelling attendance within the NFL was 63,018.
Regardless of followers clamoring for tickets to see Messi in Foxborough, it stays to be seen if the eight-time Ballon d’Or winner will truly seem.
The 36-year-old has missed Inter Miami’s final two MLS matchups, in addition to sitting out two current Argentina friendlies within the U.S., because of a hamstring damage.
Miami supervisor Gerardo “Tata” Martino has mentioned the Argentine is being evaluated week-to-week after being compelled off within the membership’s Concacaf Champions Cup second leg in opposition to Nashville SC on March 13. He has acknowledged that the purpose is to get Messi match for Miami’s Champions Cup quarterfinal matchups with Mexico’s Monterrey on April 3 and April 10.
It might not be the primary time that an MLS group has offered large numbers of tickets to followers anticipating to look at the World Cup winner just for him to be left off Miami’s group sheet.
Final season, with Messi wanting set to overlook out via damage, the Chicago Fireplace supplied the greater than 61,000 ticketed followers a $250 account credit score “towards new memberships for the 2024 season — or a $50 account credit score for anybody unable to make use of the brand new member credit score — to all single-game ticket consumers” as an incentive to nonetheless present as much as Soldier Discipline.
