As another season of MLS kicks off, Inter Miami are officially the team to beat after lifting the MLS Cup trophy in December, while Lionel Messi collected his second consecutive MVP award following a ...

The last time Los Angeles witnessed Lionel Messi in person, it felt like a comet ripping across the California sky — brilliant, fleeting, almost unfair.

That mostly has to do with one Lionel Messi, the two-time MLS MVP and World Cup winner who has turned Miami into not just the league’s main attraction, but also its most valuable franchise.