Tag: Messi, Lionel

Sticker Shock: How Messi and the Market Fed a Collectible Crisis

In Argentina, white-hot demand for a beloved World Cup collectible has produced long lines, surging prices and, briefly, government intervention.

October 7, 2022
Barcelona Spent Its Way Into Crisis. Can It Now Spend Its Way Out?

One of the world’s biggest soccer teams needed to close a $700 million shortfall. Its president, Joan Laporta, may have done it. But the club’s problems are not over.

August 3, 2022
Messi, Ronaldo and Soccer’s Golden Sunset

This year’s World Cup will be the last for some household names, meaning soccer will go into the tournament with one elite and emerge with quite another.

March 25, 2022