Soccer-Argentina's Messi ends international career

BUENOS AIRES, Aug 31 (Reuters) - Lionel Messi, who captained Argentina to World Cup victory in 2022 and the final in 2026, is retiring from international football, he said on Monday. The record eight-times Ballon d'Or winner is his country's record appearance-maker and scorer with 125 goals in 207 games,

Messi's emotional Argentina farewell shows he's not forgotten criticism of the past

The level of emotion and humanity Messi showed in his Argentina farewell note shows that he's still not over the criticism he got in the past for not winning as much with his country as he did with his club.

Lionel Messi's final Argentina chapters intertwined with South Florida

Lionel Messi's Argentina career is over. South Florida was fortunate to witness the final chapters, from the Copa America to the Cape Verde classic.

How Messi's decade of dominance almost never happened

Lionel Messi's decade of dominance with Argentina that almost never happened will go down as one of football's greatest ever stories.

Lionel Messi nets four goals in Inter Miami's 7-1 rout of Montreal

Luis Suárez, Carlos Casimiro and rookie Alexander Shaw also found the net as the Herons poured in six unanswered tallies to secure their first victory since late July.