MIAMI — A year ago this week, Lionel Messi made his storybook debut with Inter Miami, coming off the bench to score a stoppage time free kick and secure a 2-1 victory against Mexican team Cruz Azul in the inaugural Leagues Cup, a month-long tournament between all the teams from MLS and Liga MX, the Mexican league.

A sellout crowd, including ...Read more

As expected, Lionel Messi, who is out indefinitely with a ligament injury to his right ankle, will not participate in the MLS All-Star Game in Columbus, Ohio, on Wednesday. Messi’s Inter Miami teammate Luis Suarez also was dropped from the All-Star roster on Monday as he rests his knees after 40 days away for Copa America.

Sergio Busquets and...Read more

MIAMI — There was a time, not too long ago, when news that Lionel Messi would be out indefinitely with an ankle injury would have sparked panic among the Inter Miami fan base.

Not anymore.

Although Messi is the captain, a legend, reigning World Cup and Copa America champion and is tied for the team lead with 12 goals, his teammates figured ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — Teen phenom Cavan Sullivan will be on the game day squad again for the Union when they host Nashville SC on Saturday at Subaru Park (7:30 p.m., Apple TV).

“He deserves to be in the 20 again, so he will be,” manager Jim Curtin said in his news conference Friday, referring to the number of players on game days.

Sullivan, who...Read more

MIAMI — Isabel Quintero purchased two $1,000 tickets for the Copa America final in Miami Gardens’ Hard Rock Stadium. Argentina and Colombia were facing off — and she wanted to treat her dad, who lives in Colombia, to a late Father’s Day celebration.

But the festivities ended with her being denied entry — and she was pushed, trampled ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The Angel City Football Club is getting stronger financial wings, thanks to one of Los Angeles' most prominent couples: Willow Bay, dean of USC's Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism, and her husband, Walt Disney Co. Chief Executive Bob Iger.

The women's soccer club on Wednesday announced an agreement with Bay and ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Most lower-division soccer clubs are run on a shoestring budget. Salaries are normally poor and the infrastructure — locker rooms, playing fields — even poorer.

But when you're a lower-division soccer club owned by two Hollywood heavyweights, what's normal doesn't apply. And that explains how the Wrexham men's team, newly ...Read more

MIAMI — Lionel Messi, who injured his ankle during the Copa America final at Hard Rock Stadium on Sunday, will miss at least the next two Inter Miami games, coach Tata Martino confirmed on Tuesday morning.

Inter Miami plays a pair of home games Wednesday against Toronto FC and against Chicago Fire on Saturday.

“Leo’s ankle is ... well, ...Read more

MIAMI — As an action-packed month of international soccer draws to a close, the Euros and Copa America have disappeared from our TV screens and we're now left with indelible images of Lionel Messi-worshipping Argentine fans overtaking Times Square, a sea of orange Dutch fans marching to German stadiums, and Colombian yellow fever infecting ...Read more

MIAMI — It was 3:20 a.m. Monday, time to finally head back to my car in the Hard Rock Stadium parking lot after one of the longest and saddest nights of my 37-year sportswriting career.

The parking lot was quiet by then, most of the remaining cars belonging to journalists and stadium workers. When I arrived at that parking spot 12 hours ...Read more

HARRISON, N.J. — Over the last few days, the U.S. women’s soccer team hasn’t just prepared to set sail for the Olympics. It has also celebrated the 25th anniversary of the Americans’ landmark 1999 World Cup triumph, a moment that launched women’s sports into mainstream culture like nothing had before.

All 20 players from the 1999 ...Read more

MIAMI — The president of the Colombian Football Federation was arrested early Monday on battery charges after a fight with security guards following the chaos that erupted Sunday at the Copa America final at the Hard Rock Stadium, police said.

Ramon Jesurun, 71, who is also president of the organization that puts on Copa America, CONMEBOL, ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The explosion outside of his school. The vultures feasting on corpses in the streets. The water gushing into the boat that was ferrying him to safety.

The images of war remain with Kei Kamara to this day.

The LAFC striker pictures them whenever he shares the story of his childhood in Sierra Leone. He often sees them in his ...Read more

MIAMI — The Argentine and Colombian fans’ passion for their national soccer teams was palpable long before kickoff of the Copa America final at Hard Rock Stadium on Sunday night, but some fans were so desperate to get in that they stormed a gate and breached security, forcing police to lock down the entrance temporarily.

Kickoff was delayed...Read more

MIAMI — Tickets are going for $1,600 to $8,000, the list of watch parties keeps growing, and South Florida is awash in bright yellow, sky blue and white as the national soccer teams of Colombia and Argentina prepare to play the Copa America final on Sunday night at Hard Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens.

This would be a huge game no matter where ...Read more

MIAMI — A raging epidemic of yellow fever has engulfed Copa America over the past few weeks, and it is about to reach a peak on Sunday night when the resurgent Colombian national team plays defending champion Argentina in the Copa America final at Hard Rock Stadium.

Los Cafeteros (the coffee makers), as the Colombian team is nicknamed, are ...Read more