When acclaimed soccer writer Paul Tenorio followed Lionel Messi and his Inter Miami team to Dallas for one of the superstar’s first road games in America in 2023, the scene outside the team’s Renaissance Plano hotel was strangely calm. A few fans lingered behind barriers. Nothing unusual. Nothing chaotic. Not yet. Then word spread: Messi was inside. Within hours, the hotel became a frenzy. Crowds swarmed the lobby, packed the entrances and jammed every floor. As Tenorio rode the elevator to his