Thousands of words and many minutes of video content have been composed about the mad scramble to swap jerseys with Lionel Messi after his Inter Miami CF matches, a notable signpost of the high regard with which the Argentine legend is held by players around MLS and beyond.

If that’s a key metric for colleagues’ admiration, it should be noted, then, that postgame demand for Giorgio Chiellini’s No. 14 LAFC shirt is similarly intense since his arrival in the league last summer.