Lionel Messi is putting together the greatest individual season in MLS history

If there were any doubts that came to to play, they vanished in the first game of this season when he made a fully grown man disappear. The play was one of those slapstick transitions that American soccer has elevated to some kind of Dadaist art form. A Real Salt Lake defender collapsed in a heap for no clear reason and the goalkeeper was caught scrambling as the ball fell to Messi, who beat a man by cutting backwards at an implausible angle.

He’s averaging more than one through-ball per 90 minutes played. His 10 assists — 12 if you count secondary assists, as MLS does — lead the league. Five of them came in a single half last weekend, when he shredded the like a bored house cat. The best of the bunch, an assist to Paraguayan midfielder , was a perfect souvenir of Messi in his Miami era. He picked up the ball on the left side of the halfway line, miles from danger.

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