Lionel Messi of Inter Miami, center, and Manu García, left, and Jacob Bartlett of Sporting Kansas City battle for the ball during a 2025 CONCACAF Champions Cup first leg match Wednesday at Children's Mercy Park. Messi scored the game's lone goal to lift Inter Miami to a 1-0 win. Photo Credit: Kyle Rivas/Getty Images/TNS
By Karl Zinke karl.zinke@examiner.net Sporting Kansas City, playing with a new lineup just put together, kept it close but fell in the first leg of…
