Has any seemingly overhyped phenomenon done a better job living up to the hype? Fans at the World Cup quarterfinal between Argentina and Switzerland on July 11 in Kansas City, Mo.Credit... Supported ...

The game does not care who you are, what greatness you've achieved, how you'll be remembered or how many millions of people have pictures of you hanging in their homes. Sometimes, the game is the game ...

Messi's World Cup Legacy patch can be seen on the bottom of his right sleeve during Argentina's match against Austria. That small patch will eventually go into a trading card that could be worth ...

Everything around him was chaos. Red jerseys moved through the disorderly mass, converging in embraces of euphoria and glory. Tears and anger led Lionel Messi’s teammates to turn what had been a ...

It’s both depressing and oddly fitting that New Jersey’s MetLife Stadium, that giant air conditioner plonked in the middle of a sprawling parking lot, should end the international career of the ...

Lionel Messi was gone. Only his boots remained, and even those were in rough shape. Manu Ginobili looked great. Juan Manuel Fangio was unscathed. But Messi was destroyed. It had been like that for two ...

Messi retires as World Cup winner, twice Copa America champion Argentina won 2021 Copa and 2022 World Cup after Messi briefly retired in 2016 He leaves as a defining influence in his country's ...