MIAMI — Lionel Messi’s father and business manager, Jorge Messi, died early Saturday morning at a hospital in Rosario, Argentina, after a long illness. He was 68.

The news was announced by the Sanatorio Centro hospital, the Rosario-based Newell’s Old Boys club, CONMEBOL, the South American soccer federation, and confirmed to the Miami ...Read more

MIAMI — While most of his Inter Miami teammates spent the World Cup break on vacation with family and enjoying the tournament, midfielder Telasco Segovia was back home in Venezuela offering humanitarian aid after the devastating earthquakes that claimed more than 6,000 lives and left countless others homeless.

Segovia, who plays for the ...Read more

MIAMI — Lionel Messi returned to the Inter Miami starting lineup Wednesday night for the first time since leaving the World Cup Final in tears after Argentina’s loss to Spain.

Seventeen days have passed since that emotional match and after a 10-day vacation and a shift off the bench against the Columbus Crew over the weekend, Messi took the...Read more

LOS ANGELES — When Gianni Infantino was chosen to replace Sepp Blatter as president of FIFA, he was seen as a reformer, someone who would bring transparency and openness to soccer's international governing body, which had long been mired in scandal and deceit.

A decade later the reformer has been exposed, hoisted by his own petard after a ...Read more

The long road to the 2030 men’s World Cup, and Mauricio Pochettino’s second term as U.S. men’s soccer team manager, will kick off in late September.

FIFA this year combined the September and October windows into one long stretch in which teams can play up to four games. The U.S. will play all four, against a combination of familiar ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Like most good stories, this one requires planning. Organizers with the L.A. Sports and Entertainment Commission spent nearly nine years preparing to bring the FIFA World Cup to L.A. The most popular sporting event in the world was just the start of a mega-event trilogy that turns the page to Super Bowl LXI at SoFi Stadium and ...Read more

NEW YORK – Larry Berg, a member of Los Angeles FC’s ownership group with roots in Cherry Hill, Pa., has been elected as the new commissioner of Major League Soccer.

He will officially take the reins on Jan. 1, with current commissioner Don Garber keeping the job until then. Garber will then take the role of chairman.

“Thanks to the ...Read more

MIAMI — Lionel Messi and Rodrigo De Paul were back in uniform for Inter Miami on a soggy Saturday night at Nu Stadium, 13 days after playing in the World Cup Final for Argentina.

De Paul was in Miami’s starting lineup against the Columbus Crew and Messi came in off the bench in the 53rd minute to a rousing ovation and chants of “Messi! ...Read more

The rapid unraveling of FIFA President Gianni Infantino’s plan to privatize the football governing body’s commercial business has left his future in growing doubt, after two key regional associations demanded a reckoning for his leadership.

UEFA, Europe’s football governing body, issued a scathing rebuke of Infantino on Saturday, calling ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Heading into the final weekend of this summer's World Cup, the Guardian reported that support for FIFA president Gianni Infantino had climbed to record levels. More than 200 of FIFA's 211 member associations formally endorsed Infantino's bid for a fourth term as head of world soccer's governing body, the paper reported, making ...Read more

MIAMI — FIFA president Gianni Infantino scrapped his proposal to privatize stakes in the World Cup after global backlash, including the resignation of one of his top advisors and threats of a boycott by European nations.

Infantino had proposed creating a $20 billion subsidiary, FIFA Forward Enterprise (FFE), to run the World Cup and other ...Read more

MIAMI — Lionel Messi’s status for the Inter Miami home game against the Columbus Crew on Saturday remains up in the air, but the Argentine star seems to be itching to play.

Although he could have taken the allowable 21 days off following the World Cup, per FIFA rules, Messi returned to the Inter Miami training grounds on Wednesday, 10 days ...Read more

MIAMI — Carlos Cordeiro, a top advisor to FIFA President Gianni Infantino and a former Goldman Sachs banker who served on the White House World Cup Task Force, resigned on Friday amid global opposition to Infantino’s plan to sell stakes in future World Cups to private equity funds.

“As a Senior Advisor to the FIFA President, a former ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — When Danley Jean Jacques stepped back on to the field in a Union game on Wednesday, it had been just under a month since his first trip to a World Cup with Haiti ended.

But for as much as happened after that — 52 of the tournament’s 104 games, plus Major League Soccer’s return to action — the afterglow hadn’t fully ...Read more

NEW YORK — Norwegian soccer officials plan to file a complaint formally protesting President Trump’s phone call with FIFA president Gianni Infantino, which preceded the surprising reversal of U.S. star Folarin Balogun’s suspension from World Cup play.

Balogun received a red card penalty for committing a hard foul against a Bosnia and ...Read more