Inside Messi mania! Air bookings into Kansas City are up by more than 2,000 per cent with roads closing and kids flocking to training as Argentina's icon bids to win a second-straight World Cup

JACK GAUGHAN IN KANSAS CITY: He was out in a rondo, Messi. Laughing with De Paul. Looking up to the heavens when, God forbid, fate dictated he was piggy in the middle.