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 ...

Barcelona’s calendar year of 2025 produced a sensational 169 goals across 60 matches—the fifth best goalscoring effort in the club’s storied history and best outside of the golden era led by Lionel ...

Lionel Messi is preparing for a record-breaking sixth World Cup appearance, but the player heading to the tournament is ...

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 ...

Nobody knew when Barcelona's 2020-21 campaign started that it would be the last that Messi would ever play for the club. Against the backdrop of the Covid-19 pandemic with all matches played behind ...

With the World Cup approaching, it’s only right that we speak about Lionel Messi. The last time we saw him in the World Cup ...