🇦🇴🇦🇷 The reason behind Argentina suddenly playing a friendly in Angola tonight! ⬇️
Angola is celebrating the 50th anniversary of its independence from Portugal. To mark the historic milestone, the Angolan government decided to give its people a once in a lifetime gift; a chance to watch Lionel Messi play live! 😮
For this single friendly, Angola paid the Argentine Football Association an incredible €12 million, with one condition: Messi must be on the pitch! 🐐😱
A government spending such a figure just to bring Messi shows the unmatched scale of his global legacy. Even Messi’s training session in Spain drew 25,000 fans to the stadium yesterday! 🔥
From Pelé and Maradona we heard stories like this; with Messi, we are just witnessing them in real time. The G.O.A.T of football! 🇦🇷🐐