More than 10 years. The same mate. Lionel Messi, the best footballer in the world, hasn’t changed his mate since 2014 — and engraved on it are the names of his sons Thiago and Mateo. 🧉
2014:
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While sports stars renew multimillion-dollar contracts, limited-edition sneakers, and luxury watches, Messi keeps drinking his yerba from the same wooden and silver vessel he started with. A quiet constant in a life that changed everything: World Cups, Ballon d’Or awards, leagues in three countries. The mate, untouched.
What he drinks is yerba mate, an infusion native to the Paraná Rainforest and declared Cultural Heritage of Mercosur. In Argentina it is cultivated almost exclusively in Misiones, in red soils rich in iron. For millions of Latin Americans, it is much more than a drink — it is a ritual. And it seems that for Messi it is too. ☕🔥
