Lionel Messi is in Miami. The United States women’s national team is in New Zealand.
On Friday, each will make its debut — Messi playing for an MLS team; the USWNT at the Women's World Cup, seeking its third consecutive crown.
That’s one fun night for soccer in America.
Ideally, they’d be packaged together, a nationally televised doubleheader that could feed off each other’s fans and draw in casual observers.
Instead, Messi is on Apple TV at 8 p.m. ET and the American women on Fox at 9. The overlap and streaming/linear issues make it a bit clumsy, especially since Fox has a deal with MLS to simulcast 34 games a year that will already be on Apple.