Lionel Messi has long been considered the greatest soccer player ever, but he's so much more than that. He's the best male athlete, in any sport, in history.

It’s a question that almost every footballer would love to be in a position to answer when they sit down with their grandchildren one day. ‘What’s it like to play against Lionel Messi?’ Sharing the ...

AFA recordó el triunfo ante Inglaterra en el Mundial 2026 con imágenes de Messi, Maradona y Malvinas Emotivo video de AFA a un mes de Argentina 2 vs Inglaterra 1 en la Copa Mundial 2026, un ...

Messi has already scored five goals at this World Cup Charlotte Wilson/Getty Images Get free access to the most comprehensive World Cup coverage in The Athletic app. It’s May 1, 2005. It’s a week ...

Lionel Messi on the soccer field takes the short, trotty steps of a dachshund in the park. Such diminutive, mincy movements are part of his mystique: He gives opponents absolutely no reason whatsoever ...

NEW YORK – Everyone who has been in the game long enough has a Lionel Messi story, usually one in which they are on the losing side of some act of brilliance from one of the game's most accomplished ...

Lionel Messi, by most estimates the greatest soccer player ever, celebrated his 39th birthday a little early this week at a World Cup that already has his name all over it. He did so in typical Messi ...