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EA Sports FC 24 fans are counting down to the start of this year's Birthday celebrations in Ultimate Team. The two week Ultimate Team Birthday event has a 6pm GMT release time on March 15. It all begins with the launch of the UT Birthday Team 1, which features players such as Lionel Messi, Bukayo Saka and Son Heung-min. According to Electronic Arts, additional "goodies, surprises, and items" will be revealed as the celebrations continue into next week. A second Birthday team is expected to go live on March 22.EA Sports…

Anatomy of a Fall star Messi the dog stole the show at the Oscars on Sunday (10 March) by clapping in the audience.The pooch showed his appreciation for Robert Downey Jr as he won Best Supporting Actor for his role in Oppenheimer.Ryan Gosling appeared to be overjoyed at the sight of the pup, who is the only dog to win an award at the Cannes Festival.Messi starred in the Best Picture nominee as Snoop, an emotional support dog for 11-year-old Daniel (played by Milo Machado Graner) who is blind.The clip was pre-recorded as…

The 96th Academy Awards are currently underway at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles. Amid a slew of celebrities attending the ceremony and serving some iconic red carpet-moments, there`s someone in particular who stole the limelight. Messi the dog, who is best known for executing his acting prowess as Snoop in the film `Anatomy of a Fall` - an Oscar nominee, has now gone viral for attending the awards night and yapping away as he is seated amidst the audience. Watch the video below. "Anatomy of a…

Jimmy Kimmel’s opening monologue at the 96th Academy Awards took its usual digs at many of Hollywood’s most famous faces, looked back at the 2023 Writers Guild of America strike, and even celebrated the most famous dog in the US right now.For Kimmel’s fourth time at the Oscars’ helm, having run the show in 2017, 2018 and last year, he kicked off his twelve 12-minute-plus speech by paying homage to Greta Gerwig and Barbie – lambasting the clapping audience for not nominating Gerwig in the best director category in the…

Awards season campaigning is a notoriously competitive and fickle thing, a calculated mix of schmoozing at industry parties, charming audiences at late-night talk shows and being not too publicly thirsty to take home the gold (sorry, Bradley Cooper). And apparently one Icarian hero flew too close to the sun this year: Messi, the Border Collie breakout of France's exquisite courtroom drama Anatomy of a Fall, who will reportedly not be attending this year's Oscars after movie studio reps allegedly complained that he was…

Trace the timeline of Major League Soccer from its uncertain beginnings to its unquestioned success and you’ll find Greg Vanney was there at every important juncture.He played in 29 games, including the first MLS Cup final, in the league’s inaugural season in 1996, then came off the bench in David Beckham’s debut 11 years later. In 2017, he took Toronto FC to three trophies, still the only MLS treble, and last season he coached the Galaxy in front of a Rose Bowl crowd of 82,110, largest in the league’s history.But if…

Lionel Messi entered Dignity Health Sports Park through the loading dock in the southeast corner so he didn’t see the larger-than-life statue of his boss, David Beckham, on the other side of the stadium.But certainly he knows about the statue and why it’s there.Dignity Health Sports Park might not be the House that Beckham built, but it’s the one he once filled. Average attendance rose 29%, to 26,009 — at the venue known then as the Home Depot Center — in Beckham’s first full season with the Galaxy. By this final…

Lionel Messi‘s first match of the 2024 MLS season is just days away — and he’s giving fans a closer look at the music he listens to before he hits the pitch. (Spoiler alert: He’s invited to the carne asada.) On Wednesday, Apple Music shared a 60-song playlist titled “Messi: The Warm-Up” featuring some of the songs the Argentine football star listens to before games playing for Inter Miami CF, including songs by Peso Pluma, Drake, Coldplay, and J. Cole. “For as long as I can remember, music has always played a…

Apple is getting ready to kick off its second year of MLS Season Pass, with the 2024 season about to start. It's fair to say that it's starting with a bang as well — the first game will see reigning Leagues Cup champions Inter Miami CF host Real Salt Lake at Chase Stadium with Lionel Messi in tow.While the game will be a standalone match, it marks the beginning of the second year of Season Pass as part of a 10-year partnership that's costing Apple a cool $2.5 billion. Apple was also instrumental in the deal that saw…

As the MLS season gets ready to kick off, Beats has announced a global partnership with the soccer league with some seriously cool exclusive colorways of the Beats Studio Pro. In a press release, Beats announced the multi-year agreement with eight MLS clubs that will receive “custom Beats headphones exclusively created for the teams.” The teams selected for the 2024 MLS season are Atlanta United, Columbus Crew, LAFC, Nashville SC, NYCFC, St. Louis CITY SC, Toronto FC, and Lionel Messi’s Inter Miami. Beats also announced…