KINGSTON, Ja­maica – Ja­maica foot­ball fans could very well get their wish of see­ing glob­al su­per­star Li­onel Mes­si in the flesh, as it was con­firmed on Wednes­day that the Ar­gen­tine icon will ac­com­pa­ny the In­ter Mi­a­mi team to Ja­maica for their Con­ca­caf Cham­pi­ons Cup round of 16 sec­ond-leg match against Cav­a­lier on Thurs­day.

The 37-year-old su­per­star’s par­tic­i­pa­tion had been in doubt af­ter he missed both the first-leg en­counter against Cav­a­lier last week and In­ter Mi­a­mi’s MLS fix­ture against Char­lotte FC on Sun­day.

How­ev­er, Mes­si has been ac­tive­ly train­ing in re­cent days, in­clud­ing a ses­sion on Wednes­day morn­ing, sig­nalling his readi­ness to join the squad.

In­ter Mi­a­mi head coach Javier Mascher­a­no con­firmed that the World Cup win­ner will be on the flight to Kingston, though he stopped short of guar­an­tee­ing Mes­si’s in­volve­ment in the match.

“Leo is in the squad. He is go­ing to trav­el, and to­mor­row we will de­cide on the day of the game what is best, whether he starts, whether he waits and comes on lat­er. We will see how it goes,” Mascher­a­no said Wednes­day.

“To­day he trained with the group. He did the whole train­ing ses­sion and (his feel­ings) were very good.”

If Mes­si plays, it will be his first match since Feb. 25 that the mid-field mae­stro will grace a foot­ball field.

In­ter Mi­a­mi cur­rent­ly hold a 2-0 ag­gre­gate lead head­ing in­to the sec­ond leg, putting them in a strong po­si­tion to ad­vance in the tour­na­ment.

CM