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Lionel Messi is 39 years old and still making defenders look absolutely ridiculous

If you still had the notion that Lionel Messi would disappear quietly into the Miami sunset after his MLS move, his latest piece of wizardry has proven you wrong. The now 39-year-old played another starring role as Inter Miami came from a goal down to defeat New England Revolution and his winning goal was about the most Messi goal you can think of.

— Planet Football, publisher's words · Read the original ↗

16 outlets8 languages10 countriesUpdated

Who broke it

Ole

ES · AR

Followed by

15

outlets in 8 languages over 18 h 31 min.

Our read

Corroborated (8)

8 of 10 outlets each added at least one detail no earlier report had; the other 2 repeat it. That is independence, not agreement: two of them can still contradict each other.

Judged on the 10 outlets in our latest edition; the timeline keeps all 16 we have seen.

Coverage timeline

16 outlets · first-seen order
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First seen is our own clock across 245+ feeds; it is not a guarantee of who published first. Each time is the earlier of the publisher's own timestamp and our first sighting. Headlines and summaries are the publishers' own words, linked to the original. How we work out who broke it.