Best player. Best team. Inter Miamis Lionel Messi is the unquestioned force in Major League Soccer right now, on a run like nobody else the league has ever seen.

The 38-year-old Argentine star and captain of the MLS Cup champions has become the first back-to-back MVP in MLS history, getting announced Tuesday as this years winner of the leagues top individual honor.

Its another first for Messi in what seems like a never-ending list of his career accomplishments and was widely expected, almost assumed after he had a league-best 29 goals along with 19 assists during the regular season.

He also becomes just the second two-time MVP the league has ever seen, joining Preki, the winner of the award in 1997 and 2003. The other winners are all one-time MVP recipients.

He was fantastic the whole

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