In a World Cup for the ages, 39-year-old Lionel Messi and his Argentina teammates take on 19-year-old Lamine Yamal of Spain ...

Reigning champions Argentina narrowly avoided one of the all-time great upsets as they beat Cape Verde 3-2 in one of the best matches in recent World Cup history. Sidny Lopes Cabral scored a ...

This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. Lionel Messi, defying age at 39, is enjoying an unprecedented start to the 2026 World Cup ...

Messi becomes first player to compete at six World Cups Victory eases concerns over Argentina after limited recent tests against European opponents Messi matched Miroslav Klose's all-time World Cup ...

(Illustration: Eamonn Dalton / The Athletic; Getty Images/ Juan Mabromata / AFP) Lionel Scaloni did not know where to look. In the dugout at Arrowhead, Argentina’s coach was caught in the emotion of ...

Lionel Messi recovered from a missed penalty earlier in the match Monday to score his 17th World Cup goal, making him the all-time leading scorer in the history of the tournament. The feat in the ...

It was an eventful ending to Tuesday night's final match, one that saw Austria triumph by a 3-1 scoreline. While Austria held a 1-0 lead going into the break after a banger from Romano Schmid, Jordan, ...

There are few things more basic than turning towards a screen and expecting Lionel Messi to score. It is why spectators fill MLS stadiums on the regular, like clockwork, a drilled-in habit rather than ...

ARLINGTON, Texas -- If Texas is the buckle of the Bible Belt, the state was introduced to the Church of Messi this week. Lionel Messi came off the bench and scored his sixth goal of the 2026 FIFA ...

The World Cup’s sent everyone football mad. Sorry, sorry – “soccer mad,” as say the legions of USA fans whose top tier national league features fifteen teams ...

KANSAS CITY, MO. — Lionel Scaloni has seen many things in his soccer career. The Argentina manager led his country to the 2022 World Cup title. He won La Liga and the Copa del Rey in hundreds of ...

The day that Lionel Messi made his World Cup début, on June 16, 2006, I was in elementary school. I had never set foot in Argentina, and I didn’t speak a word of Spanish. The game was against a then ...