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20th Nov 2013

Pic: Lionel Messi is a lot better at football than he is at picking suit jackets

Lionel Messi has worn some questionable suit jackets in the past, but he took the biscuit with this effort when picking up yet another individual award today.

Conor Heneghan

Lionel Messi has worn some questionable suit jackets in the past, but he took the biscuit with this effort when picking up yet another individual award today.

When you’re as good at football as Lionel Messi is, those jealous of his talents can only assume, hope even, that there must be some other weakness in his character to assure us that he is in fact human after all. And, in the last few years, it appears as it has been revealed.

While the Argentinean is blessed with footballing gifts seen once in a lifetime if we’re lucky, he is not blessed with an ability to pick a good suit jacket, as was evident with the velour number he wore to the Ballon D’Or ceremony in 2012 and the polka-dot effort he displayed at the same ceremony earlier this year.

He outdid himself in the naff fashion stakes earlier today, however, when wearing a frankly inexplicable jacket to a ceremony in which he was presented with the Golden Shoe award for being the leading goalscorer in the top divisions of European football last season.

 

Judging by the picture above, the great Hristo Stoichkov couldn’t even bear to look and we don’t blame him.

We don’t know where to start.