“You don’t mess with Messi” would seem an easy concept to adopt and apply, but the Inspector Clouseaus who lead MLS proved otherwise this week. They sidelined the one player who moves the MLS needle and plants the league’s flag in soccer-obsessed countries abroad.

Lionel Messi and his wife, Antonela Roccuzzo, attended Coldplay's concert at Hard Rock Stadium with their children and were caught on the jumbotron. Inter Miami star Lionel Messi and his wife, Antonela Roccuzzo,

You wouldn’t need to think too hard to make a headline about Lionel Messi. After all, MLS commissioner Don Garber put it perfectly. “I mean, he is Michael Jackson meeting Taylor Swift—and he’s playing in our league.