A record crowd of 27,642 packed Dignity Health Sports Park on Sunday to get a look at Lionel Messi and they got what they paid for, with Messi scoring in the second minute of stoppage time to give Inter Miami a 1-1 tie with the Galaxy.

Messi’s goal came after Riqui Puig turned the ball over deep in the Galaxy end. Messi and former Barcelona ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — With teenager Jaedyn Shaw and Alex Morgan, who is not a teenager, combining for three first-half goals, the U.S. women's national team routed Argentina 4-0 in group play of the CONCACAF W Gold Cup on Friday, running its unbeaten streak to 21 games.

Unbeaten in regulation time, that is.

The qualifier is important because four of...Read more

ANNAPOLIS, Md. — Nicole Aunapu Mann is unquestionably among the greatest players in Navy women's soccer history. Now, her out-of-this-world performances carry new meaning.

In 2013, Aunapu Mann was selected as one of eight members of NASA Astronaut Group 21, achieving a dream set shortly after earning her wings of gold a decade before.

The ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Premier League rivals Manchester United and Arsenal will face off at SoFi Stadium on July 27 in the first game of a three-team, three-match preseason tour of the U.S. Liverpool, the current league leader, is the third team involved. The Reds will meet Arsenal at Philadelphia's Lincoln Financial Field on July 31 before playing ...Read more

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Believe it or not — and I’m not sure I do, even on replay — Salt Lake defender Andrew Brody had the best view of the Lionel Messi experience on an opening night that showed what to expect this Inter Miami season.

Which is anything.

Or maybe everything?

“If anybody was skeptical about what this team can do, I ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Mia Fishel should have been in the starting lineup for the women’s national team Tuesday. Instead, she wasn’t even on the roster.

The first CONCACAF W Gold Cup was to be her coming-out party, the springboard that would catapult her into contention for a spot on the Olympic team this summer. Instead, she’ll be watching the ...Read more

Lionel Messi and his pink clad Inter Miami teammates kicked off the 2024 MLS season Wednesday night and showed why they are the league’s main attraction, dazzling the Chase Stadium crowd with precision passing, juking defenders left and right, looking at times like a team in mid-season form as they beat Real Salt Lake 2-0.

All the fans’ ...Read more

What should Inter Miami fans expect of Lionel Messi in 2024 with his first full season in Major League Soccer now underway?

Everything, that’s all. Matters not that he will turn 37 in a few months. Time is the constraint of mere mortals. This is Messi: Greatest of all time and greater than time itself.

Are we serious? Another question: Can ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Olivia Moultrie wasn't trying to save the future of women's soccer in the U.S. as much as she was trying to jump-start her own career when she sued the NWSL for the right to play.

Nearly three years later, it looks as if she might have accomplished both.

Moultrie, 18, who next month will begin her fourth NWSL season with the ...Read more

Mia Fishel, the U.S. women’s soccer team’s marquee young striker, suffered a torn ACL in her right knee at a national team practice on Sunday, the team announced.

The 22-year-old is thus out of the Concacaf Gold Cup, which the U.S. starts play in Tuesday night; and almost surely this summer’s Olympics. She’ll also be sidelined for a ...Read more

MIAMI — Inter Miami’s home stadium has a new name.

The club and JPMorgan Chase announced on Tuesday a multiyear naming rights partnership for the 21,500-seat home Fort Lauderdale venue, which will now be called Chase Stadium.

The Auto Nation DRV PNK Stadium signage was taken down and replaced by Chase Stadium on the eve of the MLS season ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Major League Soccer might open its regular season Wednesday using replacement officials after members of the Professional Soccer Referees Association (PSRA) overwhelmingly rejected a labor deal with the organization that provides officials to leagues in the U.S. and Canada.

More than 95% of the union members who voted Saturday ...Read more

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — The craziest part still to fathom, even after a season of it, as Inter Miami returns to view?

It’s the gap between them and him.

Between their world and his world.

Between where they can go and where he can take them.

“It was a trip I couldn’t have gone on except on this team,’’ Inter Miami forward Robert ...Read more

INDIO, Calif. — Chess, Dejan Joveljic says, is all about thinking ahead, being patient and working the board to your advantage. And if you do all that correctly and in concert, you can bend an opponent to your will.

Which explains how Joveljic put the Galaxy in check this winter.

Joveljic is a national master in chess, rating him among the ...Read more

MIAMI — The organizer of the Inter Miami game in Hong Kong on Sunday where fans booed Lionel Messi for not playing announced on Friday that it will issue a 50% refund to ticket holders, which will amount to $7.2 million.

Tickets sold for as high as $624 for the exhibition game and it was attended by nearly 40,000 people, many of whom wore ...Read more

Lionel Messi and his Inter Miami teammates head home from their grueling world tour after losing to Japanese league champion Vissel Kobe 4-3 in penalties following a 0-0 tie in Tokyo Wednesday.

After sitting out the previous game in Hong Kong and playing just seven minutes in the second game in Saudi Arabia due to a hip injury, Messi played 30 ...Read more

This international scandal over Lionel Messi missing a game in Hong Kong is as hilarious as it was predictable.

Inter Miami invited this type of controversy in undertaking an extraordinary 25,000-mile, seven-match, five-nation preseason tour that has been closer to preseason tour-ment in the runup to the February 21 start of its Major League ...Read more