Lionel Messi led Inter Miami’s comeback against NYCFC and surpassed Pelé with a stunning free-kick goal. Lionel Messi once ...

Lionel Messi has taken another step up one of football’s most iconic scoring ladders, moving to 71 career free-kick goals and going clear of Pelé in the all-time list. The Inter Miami and Argentina ...

Shades of Pele! FAU soccer player scores goal on incredible bicycle kick vs. North FloridaFlorida Atlantic soccer's Mamadou Diarra scored via a bicycle kick in the 34th minute, and it made ESPN ...

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 ...

“Pele Signs With Cosmos: ‘Soccer Has Arrived’ Here With the same ebullience that has marked his play, Pele took up his new career yesterday as a New York Cosmos forward and soccer’s ambassador to the ...

Lionel Messi will not be the first international soccer superstar to play in Minnesota, if and when the Argentine midfielder takes the field for Inter Miami versus Minnesota United on Saturday in St.