Messi fever grips Ohio as another MLS club smashes home attendance record

MLS teams keep making home attendance record in matches against Inter Miami. The latest to set a new attendance record is Columbus Crew as thousands poured in to watch Lionel Messi.

Another match, another record! That pretty much sums up Lionel Messi’s time in the Major League Soccer (MLS) while playing for Inter Miami. And a new record was made on Saturday as the club clashed with the Columbus Crew at the Huntington Bank Field in Cleveland, Ohio.

While the record does not belong to Messi, it was definitely created due to the presence of the Argentine footballing great on the pitch. With Messi in Miami’s starting line-up, 60,614 fans turned up in the Huntington Bank Field stadium, which is the highest attendance a Crew home match has ever seen.

In fact, anticipating a record-breaking crowd, the match was moved to the Huntington Bank Field, which is the home stadium of the NFL’s Cleveland Browns. The Huntington Bank Field is also two hours north of Columbus’s Lower.com Field but it did not matter to the fans as a new club attendance record was created on Saturday.

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