Category: Football (Soccer)

Even without his Apple deal and his equity in Inter Miami, Lionel Messi is making more money than all but a few MLS teams.

“With this type of rule,” Messi said in Spanish, roughly, “we’re going in a bad direction.”

Toronto alleged on Saturday that NYCFC’s head coach cornered and punched one of their players at the last match between the two clubs.

Messi needed just 33 minutes to do things that no MLS player had ever done in a full game, and that Messi had never done in his career.

The Columbus Crew went to Mexico and flattened Monterrey to reach the CONCACAF Champions Cup final.

Messi, after two more goals and an assist Saturday, is averaging 2.5 goal contributions per 90 minutes so far this MLS season.

For all of Major League Soccer's growth, for all its stated global ambition, it still lags on its own continent.

Referees will see significant pay raises thanks to this new CBA.

Concerns linger over Messi's fitness, especially after a close call Thursday, but that's not the only reason he sat out Sunday's match versus Montreal.

Messi’s two goals in Saturday’s 5-0 rout were the umpteenth examples of his greatness, and the latest evidence that MLS is struggling to contain it.

The mid-December rebellion that rattled American soccer was something of an existential moment for the federation.