FC Barcelona icon Lionel Messi has been dubbed the 'King of Football" and the “best footballer of all time” after clinching a ...

Jordi Alba has revisited some of the defining moments of his Barcelona career, opening up about everything from his ...

The Argentine superstar is one of just four athletes to have joined the three-comma club while still active in their ...

Lionel Messi receives the 2026 Princess of Asturias Award for Sports, with former club Barcelona leads the tributes for the ...

Lionel Messi is one of the world’s best soccer players and plays for Argentina at the 2026 FIFA World Cup. Read about his ...

La Liga named Lamine Yamal its Player of the Year, an honor previously won by both Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo. Just ...

Forbes has confirmed both Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo as billionaires on the same day, completing the most ...

Lionel Messi already had the perfect ending at the 2022 World Cup. What does the magician have up his sleeve in 2026?

Fans have taken to X (formerly Twitter) to give their take on Cristiano Ronaldo's reaction to a comment made by former ...

As part of our buildup to the 2026 FIFA men’s World Cup in the United States, Canada and Mexico, we are publishing excerpted chapters from The Soccer 100, The Athletic’s definitive book on the 100 ...

"I remember that when I arrived in Barcelona, they immediately asked me who the best player in the world was. I had to say it was Lionel Messi, I lied. It was one of the biggest lies of my life." ...

A former teammate of the Argentine revealed what his first steps at the Catalan club were like, under the watchful eye of the ...