Lionel Messi will not be the first international soccer superstar to play in Minnesota, if and when the Argentine midfielder takes the field for Inter Miami versus Minnesota United on Saturday in St. Paul. Pele was that trailblazer when he and the New York ...

Enzo Fernandez has been reflecting on how he helped Lionel Messi to complete “unfinished business”, with an “incredible” experience being savoured at the 2022 World Cup. The Albiceleste captured a global crown at that tournament,

But some estimate that Hungarian phenomenon Ferenc Puskas notched 404 assists in his career. Messi reached that number by setting up three goals in Inter Miami’s 4-0 thrashing of Cincinnati. One more assist and Messi will emphatically claim the record outright.

Perhaps the best available metric to sum up Lionel Messi’s latest achievement is that precisely nobody was surprised about it. On Sunday, the Barcelona and Argentine soccer legend – and even at the tender age of 25, that description is not hyperbole ...