Crowds at Gillette Stadium watched soccer legend Lionel Messi score twice Wednesday night, leading Inter Miami to a 2-1 win over the New England Revolution. Messi visited Gillette’s Stadium with Inter Miami for the first time last year, were he also scored twice. Many fans, including some New Englanders, showed their support by swapping out red, white and blue for pink Messi jerseys.”We knew we were going to have a full stadium. You just got to be in that moment. It was unreal,” a person at the game said.Christopher McCarthy and his son Carter, of Salem, New Hampshire, were among those in the stands.>> Download the free WMUR app to get updates on the go: Apple | Google Play << Carter, who got into soccer because of Messi, said seeing him in person was “wild.””I think he’s a really good player,” Carter said.However, not everyone was caught up in the Messi Mania.”Any person that goes against my Revs in my house, they suck automatically. For 90 minutes, they are the worst player in the world because they are against my Revs,” said one Revolution fan.No matter who fans were rooting for during Wednesday’s game, both teams put on a show.With the loss, the Revolution fell to 6-8-7 on the season.>> Subscribe to WMUR’s YouTube channel <<
FOXBOROUGH, Mass. —Crowds at Gillette Stadium watched soccer legend Lionel Messi score twice Wednesday night, leading Inter Miami to a 2-1 win over the New England Revolution.
Messi visited Gillette’s Stadium with Inter Miami for the first time last year, were he also scored twice.
Many fans, including some New Englanders, showed their support by swapping out red, white and blue for pink Messi jerseys.
“We knew we were going to have a full stadium. You just got to be in that moment. It was unreal,” a person at the game said.
Christopher McCarthy and his son Carter, of Salem, New Hampshire, were among those in the stands.
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Carter, who got into soccer because of Messi, said seeing him in person was “wild.”
“I think he’s a really good player,” Carter said.
However, not everyone was caught up in the Messi Mania.
“Any person that goes against my Revs in my house, they suck automatically. For 90 minutes, they are the worst player in the world because they are against my Revs,” said one Revolution fan.
No matter who fans were rooting for during Wednesday’s game, both teams put on a show.
With the loss, the Revolution fell to 6-8-7 on the season.
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