The European Championships and Copa América, featuring 40 of the top national teams, will likely determine this year's Ballon d'Or winner amid the most open competition for the title of world's best soccer player in years.
Here’s how the Copa América field stacks up with kickoff approaching.
It was Copa América — the quadrennial South American championship, the 48th edition of which begins next week here in the United States — that unshackled Messi in 2021, and paved his path to soccer’s summit.
The Boston Celtics on Tuesday announced a new injury to one-time All-Star center Kristaps Porziņģis — "a torn medial retinaculum allowing dislocation of the posterior tibialis tendon in his left leg."