Inter Miami criticized for having younger players face media after historic loss
Credit: Jim Rassol-Imagn Images On Saturday night, Orlando City became just the third team in MLS history to overcome a three-goal deficit and win, storming back from 3-0 down to beat Inter Miami 4-3 at Nu Stadium. It was, as MLS itself put it on its own website , the greatest comeback in league history. What followed postgame said just as much about this club as the result itself.
According to Franco Panizo, a veteran soccer reporter whose work has appeared here at Awful Announcing and who we covered last month when Inter Miami declined to credential him for Nu Stadium’s opening match for the first time in six seasons, noted afterward that the club sent its younger players out to face the media while Lionel Messi, Rodrigo De Paul, and Luis Suarez were nowhere to be found. Embarrassing how Inter Miami puts the younger players up to face the postgame music with the media after a 4-3 home loss to rival Orlando City. Meanwhile, leaders Lionel Messi, Rodrigo De Paul, and Luis Suarez hide in the shadows.
#InterMiamiCF #Messi pic. twitter. com/H7gJGuGZIR — Franco Panizo (@FrancoPanizo) May 3, 2026 When reporter Andrey Anez asked Noah Allen, one of the younger players put up to face reporters, whether it’s tough to be one of the faces after rough results regularly, Allen’s answer was honest.
“Yeah,” he said. “I’m not going to lie, yeah. ” Tremendous question from colleague @andreyanez07 to Noah Allen as to whether it’s tough to be one of the faces to have to regularly face media after rough results: Allen: “Yeah.
I’m not going to lie, yeah. ” #InterMiamiCF #Messi pic. twitter.