Lionel Messi drops huge next job hint as Inter Miami star shares same stance as Cristiano Ronaldo

Lionel Messi has ruled out becoming a coach when his playing career ends.

Messi, 37, is still under contract at Inter Miami until the end of next year, and there is an option to extend that deal for another 12 months. The club's captain is also still playing for Argentina and remains undecided about whether or not to continue playing for his country if they qualify for the 2026 World Cup.

Instead, he will wait to see how he is doing over the next 18 months, acknowledging he is not thinking that far ahead yet and is taking life one day at a time. However, Messi knows that he is not considering coaching and has no plans to become one.

"I know that I wouldn't like to be a coach," Messi told 433. "But I don't know what I can become in the future." Those comments come after he caveated that stance during an interview with ESPN and Star+ this summer.

"I always said that I don't see myself as a coach; I wouldn't like to be one, but football and life take so many turns that you never know," Messi said. "I see it as difficult. But yes with something related to football because it is my life, because I love it and like it a lot."

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It appears that neither he nor Cristiano Ronaldo will move into management after retiring. In an interview with Rio Ferdinand earlier this year, he said: "For me will be difficult one day to be a coach, because I don't have passions for this generation, it's difficult especially in football, because they don't take advice by our experience.

"They think they know everything; they think the phones will give you a good education, the TikTok, the Instagram. I have other things to worry about, another chapter of my life that is a business part that I'm excited about."