Lionel Messi stirred up social networks with an image that went up in his accounts months before the World Cup | VIDEO

Lionel Messi is one of the figures that will be in Qatar 2022. For this reason, the Adidas brand, one of the footballer’s sponsors, chose him as the character to present the new World Cup ball. In fact, in recent hours, the striker shared various images on his accounts with the ball that will roll in the long-awaited tournament.

Continuing with the image work for the German company, the 10 of the Argentine team surprised all his followers this Friday, on the eve of the World Cup draw. The crack spread through several stories on Instagram an appearance inside a tattoo studio.

“Hey, everything okay? Look, look, record there”, says Leo Messi to the person who makes the recording in the mentioned place. Immediately, it was seen that the Albiceleste scorer allowed a new tattoo to be made on his leg with the World Cup ball (called Al Rihla) and the following message: “Come on 2022″.

Immediately, on social networks, there were doubts about the tattoo. It is real? The truth is that various Argentine media indicated that the tattoo on Messi’s leg is part of an advertising campaign linked to the promotion of the official ball that will roll on the Qatari fields between November 21 and December 21.

There is more, because Messi sent a message with Al Rihla in his hand and it is also related to what he will have to live with Argentina in the World Cup. “Now we start our way…”Says the posting of the star, who added two emoticons: the flag of his country and a ball.

Messi’s fifth

Messi will be 35 years old when the fifth World Cup of his career gets underway at Qatar 2022 next November. In a national team in which he had never been better surrounded and in which he does not carry an excessive offensive weight, the ‘Flea’ sees the end of his journey with the Albiceleste.

Barring an injury in the next seven months, Messi will step onto a pitch in the Middle Eastern nation to play his 20th World Cup match. If everything goes according to his wishes, match 26 will be a semi-final.

Playing it would mean breaking the record for the most games played, the 25 that the German Lothar Matthäus accumulated with his successive appearances between 1982-1998, including the 1990 title.

Messi will not be the only one who will land in Qatar to play a fifth consecutive World Cup. The Portuguese star Cristiano Ronaldo and the Mexicans Guillermo Ochoa and Andrés Guardado could increase the membership of the “Club 5 Mundiales”.