Best player. Best team. Inter Miami’s Lionel Messi is the unquestioned force in Major League Soccer right now, on a run like nobody else the league has ever seen.

The 38-year-old Argentine star — and captain of the MLS Cup champions — has become the first back-to-back MVP in MLS history, getting announced Tuesday as this year’s winner of the league’s top individual honor.

Getty Images Getty Images FORT LAUDERDALE, FLORIDA - DECEMBER 09: Lionel Messi #10 of Inter Miami CF walks off the field after receiving the 2025 Landon Donovan MLS MVP trophy at Chase Stadium on December 09, 2025 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. (Photo by Megan Briggs/Getty Images)

It’s another first for Messi in what seems like a never-ending list of his career accomplishments and was widely expected, almost as

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