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South Florida will host eight high-stakes matches at this summer's FIFA Club World Cup, featuring iconic teams like Real Madrid, Bayern Munich and Boca Juniors — as well as Inter Miami — as they fight it out to be crowned the world's best soccer club.

Ex-Miami city commissioner Ken Russell has threatened to recall his former colleagues after they decided that money from the owners of pro soccer club Inter Miami that was intended for building new city parks will now be used exclusively for their own park. The investment had been part of the voter-approved deal to take over public land for their Freedom Park stadium project.

Lionel Messi is the MVP of Major League Soccer for 2024. The award comes after a season where he missed 15 of Inter Miami’s 34 regular-season matches with injuries or commitments to Argentina’s national team.

Lionel Messi and Javier Mascherano are together again, this time with Inter Miami. The former Barcelona and Argentina teammates have reunited, with Inter Miami announcing Tuesday that Mascherano’s hiring as the club’s new coach is complete.

Inter Miami, which set the MLS records for most points and best winning percentage in the regular season, gets a big challenge right out of the gate in the playoffs by facing Atlanta in a best-of-three Eastern Conference first-round series.

Lionel Messi’s first MLS Cup playoff match with Inter Miami will be on Oct. 25. And it’ll be aired live on a massive screen spanning an entire block of New York’s Times Square.

Inter Miami says it will not open a long-awaited new stadium near Miami International Airport until 2026. Jorge Mas, one of the team’s owners, previously told multiple outlets that he was targeting a 2025 opening for the stadium.

Interest in women’s sports has been growing. Deloitte predicts that revenue from women’s elite sports in the U.S. will surpass one billion dollars for the first time ever in 2024.

Messi Mania returns to Major League Soccer as Lionel Messi embarks on his first full season with Inter Miami. The team also signed Luis Suarez in the offseason, reuniting the two close friends.

Inter Miami celebrated its partnership with cruise line Royal Caribbean International by sending Lionel Messi and his teammates to the Port of Miami, where they took part in the traditional naming of a new ship.

Injured Lionel Messi was not on Inter Miami's roster as the club tried to win its second trophy in just over a month, after his arrival transformed the team's fortunes.

Seven-time Ballon d'Or winner Lionel Messi is back in contention for the prestigious award a year being omitted from the nomination list which this time doesn't include longtime rival Cristiano Ronaldo.