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An MLS coach in the US has said the Argentina superstar should get extra protection from referees same way Michael Jordan did, when he joins Inter Miami.   In order to protect the massive financial investment the league has undertaken to bring the recently crowned World Cup-winning captain, some expect the governing body for referees in the US, the Professional Referees Organization (PRO), to have different expectations for matches involving Messi.    One unnamed MLS coach told The Athletic that the Argentine should 'get the (Michael) Jordan treatment. (He) should get every single call.'   But any 'Jordan treatment' could lead to MLS teams implementing their own version of the 'Jordan rules'.   The Jordan Rules were a successful defensive basketball strategy employed by the Detroit Pistons against the six-time NBA title winner in order to limit his effectiveness in any game. Devised by Chuck Daly and his assistants at the time, Ron Rothst...

U.S. President, Joe Biden has warned his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping to ‘be careful’ after the Chinese President met with Russia’s Vladimir Putin because Beijing is heavily reliant on Western investment.   ‘This is not a threat. This is an observation,’ Biden told CNN in an interview aired Sunday, July 9. ‘Since Russia went into Ukraine, 600 American corporations have pulled out of Russia. And you have told me that your economy depends on investment from Europe and the United States. Be careful,’ he added.   Putin and Xi held two days of talks in March with warm words of friendship between China and Russia and joint criticism of the West, but made no agreement of a diplomatic breakthrough over Ukraine.   The pair also participated in a virtual summit earlier this week. Tensions and pessimism in the U.S.-China relationship have heightened in recent years over national security issues such as Taiwan, Russia’s war in Ukraine, growing U.S. export bans on advanc...