Luis Advíncula, the Peruvian full-back, was too embarrassed to ask Messi for his shirt. So he called Marcos Rojo, a former teammate, and asked him to speak to Messi before Peru vs Argentina.
The deal had been arranged beforehand, but Advíncula still wanted to confirm it during the match, face to face with Messi, as if he didn’t want the deal to slip away. And it worked: he got the shirt.
That wasn’t the only one. He also keeps two Messi shirts from Inter Miami, one of them obtained at the “Tarde Blanquiazul”, this year’s friendly between Alianza Lima and Inter Miami.
With all three hanging in his home, Advíncula summed it up with a phrase that has already gone viral: “I’ve secured my old age”