Major League Soccer has resumed play after its six-week pause, but the league is stumbling into its own post-World Cup identity crisis with no clear plan beyond the fading magic of Lionel Messi’s legs and the unresolved coaching future of Gregg Berhalter.
Watching Inter Miami scrape through a 1-0 win over a depleted Charlotte side last weekend, the Messi dependency was as obvious as his labored sprint up the right flank in the 78th minute. At 37, with a plantar fascia issue that has cost him nearly half of Miami’s regular-season matches, Messi is