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A street vendor sells Lionel Messi FC Barcelona soccer jerseys and Kylian Mbappé merchandise at a flea market in Spain in 2019. Photo: Marco Verch/flickr. 

Growing up in England, it was pretty much inevitable that I would become a football — sorry, soccer — fan. For my sins, my team was Chelsea, which was then much less of the powerhouse that it became in the 2000s. But in the 1980s I moved to the U.S. and baseball became my new sports passion, though I still monitored what was going on in my native land.

And I still watched many World Cup matches, very much enjoying seeing the globe’s top stars in action. One of these was, of course, Lionel Messi of Argentina, whose on-field magic led him — justifiably — to be called the greatest player on the planet.

So it was with great pleasure that I saw on Thursday that the now-veteran star had signed with the U.S. Major League Soccer team Inter Miami, which means I have more chances to see him on TV.