Lionel Messi won the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar with Argentina, and one of his opponents from that tournament has now ...

FORT LAUDERDALE, FL — Lionel Messi is rested and refreshed before Inter Miami ’s first match in the 2025 Leagues Cup ...

The Seattle Sounders, like Inter Miami also a Club World Cup entrant, are there, too. So are last year’s MLS Cup champion LA ...

Messi’s World Cup goal total is the most ever by an Argentine player and is tied for fourth most all time with France's Just Fontaine. Germany’s Miroslav Klose leads with 16 between 2002 and 2014.

TIME named Messi the 2023 Athlete of the Year, adding he is an "accelerant" to soccer’s growth in the United States, especially because Copa America in 2024, the Club World Cup in 2025, and the ...

Fernando Signorini, Argentina’s former fitness coach, recalls seeing Messi stagger into their dressing room, zombie-like, after a crushing 4-0 defeat by Germany in the 2010 World Cup quarter ...

Lionel Messi speaks after Argentina's 3-0 win over Croatia in the World Cup semifinals. "They very much needed this joy," Scaloni said of the fans. "Football is more than a sport for us.

Messi came close to a World Cup win during the 2014 final, which Argentina lost to Germany. He also faced Germany during his first World Cup in 2006, in a quarterfinal.

Argentina are world champions for the first time since 1986, the year before Messi was born. At 35 it is the crowning glory of an extraordinary career that had never lacked embellishment. Messi ...

13 World Cup matches in which he has scored or assisted, tied with Ronaldo (Brazil) for the most since 1966 16 victories played in, one shy of tying Miroslav Klose for the most in men’s World ...

NPR's Juana Summers talks with The Last Cup host Jasmine Garsd, about the life and legacy of Lionel Messi, one of the best soccer players in history, as he attempts to win his first World Cup.

His time abroad has fundamentally changed the way he plays. Things get even more complicated when the Argentine soccer legend, Diego Maradona, becomes coach of Messi's 2010 World Cup team.