Messi loses his cool after a player provokes rare behavior from the Inter Miami star
When you're Lionel Messi,having a target on your back is pretty much part of the job. You're the best in the world for most, you glide through defenders like the pitch is yours, and sometimes-when skill outmatches strategy-fouls become the only way to stop you. That's exactly the kind of energy Messi brought into the final stretch of the Concachampions as Inter Miami aimed to reach the title match for the first time in its history. But the first leg didn't go as planned-and that frustration may have been the first crack in Messi's calm. Things boiled over when fellow Argentine Andrés Cubas brought his strength, and Leo didn't let it slide as he missed a killer kick that could've changed the curse of the game. Leo turned around, marched right up to Cubas, and let his anger be known. […]