Inter Miami CF players Lionel Messi and Luis Suarez have been fined an undisclosed amount by Major League Soccer for violating the "hands to the face/head/neck of an opponent" rule during the team's season-opening MLS match on Saturday.

Concacaf has disciplined referee Marco Antonio Ortiz Nava after he was seen apparently asking Lionel Messi for his shirt following Inter Miami CF's Concacaf Champions Cup win over Sporting Kansas City on Wednesday.

Inter Miami and Lionel Messi’s first competitive match of the 2025 season was one for the books. And, of course, autograph worthy. The final whistle of Inter Miami CF’s Concacaf Champions Cup match against Sporting Kansas City on Wednesday night at Children's Mercy Park saw a referee ask Lionel Messi for his autograph,

Inter Miami players arrive in Kansas City Wednesday bundled up for the frigid weather for the evening Concacaf Champions Cup opening match vs. Sporting KC. Inter Miami CF Lionel Messi and his Inter Miami teammates arrived in Kansas City on Wednesday all bundled up in ski hats and parkas and were set to take on Sporting KC at 8 p.

Lionel Messi and Inter Miami CF are off the Kansas City on Tuesday night for the first leg of a Concacaf Champions Cup battle with Sporting Kansas City.

A referee approached Lionel Messi for a keepsake after the first leg of Inter Miami CF's Concacaf Champions Cup series against Sporting Kansas City.

After Lionel Messi didn’t make the trip to Houston, the Dynamo offered fans who purchased tickets for Sunday’s game against Inter Miami a make-up for their troubles. Matches against Messi-led Inter Miami have been one of the hottest tickets in Major League Soccer since the global sports icon joined the team in 2023,

The Dynamo remain winless across their first two games of the MLS season after a loss Sunday to Inter Miami CF, playing without superstar Lionel Messi.

Sources confirmed that the 37-year-old is not injured, but simply being rested by Inter Miami manager Javier Mascherano in the middle of a stretch of five games in 15 days across multiple competitions.

Lionel Messi did not travel with his Inter Miami teammates to Texas to face the Houston Dynamo at Shell Energy Stadium on Sunday night, a source confirmed to ESPN.

Lionel Messi did not travel to Houston for Inter Miami’s game against the Dynamo on Sunday night, as coach Javier Mascherano chose to keep him home to let the 37-year-old Argentine captain rest ahead of a crowded schedule over the next few weeks.