(Reuters) -- Lionel Messi wants to be remembered as a good friend and colleague to his team mates rather than as the best player in the world, the unassuming Argentine said in an interview on Monday.

Lionel Messi runs with the ball during the La Liga match between FC Barcelona and Granada CF at Camp Nou on March 20, 2012 in Barcelona, Spain. The player wore a pair of red and blue color-blocked ...

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© Leonardo Fernandez/Getty ImagesWith Messi in peak form, Inter Miami is climbing the Eastern Conference standings. If Messi scores twice against FC Cincinnati this ...

Lionel Messi's soaring career at the club that has coached him since he was an under-sized teenage prodigy is set to continue for at least another five years. Messi agreed on Tuesday to extend his ...

Lionel Messi needed just 25 minutes to dispel any doubts that he would break Gerd Muller’s longstanding world record of 85 goals in a calendar year on Sunday. Having made a quick recovery from the ...

In today's microwave Digital Age, it's important to keep FC Barcelona striker Lionel Messi's 2012 campaign in perspective. Messi and football enthusiasts across the globe have enjoyed his truly epic ...

That this moment unfolded, on July 21, 2023, in Fort Lauderdale still feels surreal. Lionel Messi, in his first game wearing a pink Inter Miami jersey, was awarded a free kick in the final seconds of ...

Lionel Messi broke Gerd Mueller's 40-year-record for most goals in a year with his 86th on Sunday He scored twice for Barcelona in today's game; the first tied the record and the second broke it Messi ...