A steakhouse in the trendy Buenos Aires neighborhood of Palermo was mobbed by hundreds of frenzied football fans when word spread that Lionel Messi was inside having dinner.
Instances when teams or players allowed a situation to get to them, and did the unthinkable.
The 35-year-old Messi also beat Mbappé — who was seeking his first best player award from FIFA — to the Golden Ball trophy awarded by FIFA for the World Cup’s best player.
The 23-year-old Alvarez, who helped Argentina win the World Cup, has scored 10 goals in 33 appearances during his first season in Manchester.
Nobody was injured in the early morning attack, and it was unclear why assailants would target Lionel Messi or the Unico supermarket in the country’s third-largest city of Rosario, owned by the family of his wife,...
Argentina's World Cup-winning captain and France's superstar forward head the three-player shortlist announced by FIFA on Friday, eight weeks after leading their teams in an epic final in Qatar.
The governing body of football increased the size of the 2026 tournament for the second time — six years after the first — by approving a bigger group stage for the inaugural 48-team event.
Lionel Scaloni, Carlo Ancelotti and Pep Guardiola were shortlisted Thursday for a “best coach” award, while Walid Regragui didn’t get enough votes despite leading Morocco on a stunning run to the World Cup semifinals.
Members of the South American candidacy for the centennial 2030 World Cup want to host the opening match in Buenos Aires and the final in Montevideo, where...
Argentina superstar Lionel Messi has said in an interview published on Thursday that his age would make it difficult to play another World Cup.
World Cup winner Lionel Messi regretted his testy exchanges with the Netherlands coach and players during their controversial quarterfinal in Qatar, he said in...
The stage is set on Thursday for Lionel Messi vs. Cristiano Ronaldo when Messi’s Paris Saint-Germain takes on a combined XI of Saudi Arabian teams Al Nassr...
Lionel Messi scored in his first game since leading Argentina to the World Cup title as French league leader Paris Saint-Germain beat Angers 2-0 on Wednesday.
The 36-year-old goalkeeper told L’Equipe newspaper he will focus on his Tottenham Hotspur club career in the English Premier League.
Lionel Messi finally has something Kylian Mbappé already had with a World Cup winners’ medal. Now Mbappé wants what Messi has won many times: the Ballon...
Argentina's victory in the football World Cup tournament in Qatar has suddenly meant that many tattoo artists across the country are fully booked.
Szymon Marciniak, his country Poland's first ever to officiate a World Cup final, came under scrutiny from the French media for allowing Messi's extra-time...
Martinez's antics in the World Cup final were slammed by former footballers and pundits alike.
The chef, who is known as Salt Bae and is regularly seen with FIFA president Gianni Infantino, mingled with Argentina players and posed for photos.
Brazil was eliminated in the quarterfinals by Croatia but built enough rankings points from results over recent years that feed into FIFA's calculation.
President Alberto Fernández sought to play up the celebration itself, saying that “if you see the happiness that there were in the streets, the objective...
Lionel Messi and Argentina beat France in the finals of the FIFA World Cup via penalty-shootout.
The France superstar might have been on the losing side of an epic final against Argentina that was settled in a penalty shootout but still left his imprints...
Qatar witnessed one of the most thrilling finals in the tournament’s 92-year history that finished 3-3 through extra time, with Lionel scoring twice and...
Messi was at his most inspirational, scoring two goals to take his total for the tournament to seven and delivering his country's third World Cup triumph.
