On November 25, legendary footballer Diego Maradona passed away. The planet paid the highest types of tribute to the Argentine football icon who is broadly deemed one particular of the most effective ever to grace the football field.
Lionel Messi, who is deemed to be Maradona’s successor, also paid tribute to the former footballer by taking off his Barcelona jersey to reveal a Newell’s Old Boys shirt belonging to Maradona, a gesture that was praised about the planet.
However, Messi was shown a yellow card for his gesture. Although the match official had to book Messi with a ‘heavy heart’. Later, Messi and Barcelona have been fined a combined 780 euros ($943) for the tribute.
Messi was fined 600 euros although his club was fined 180. The total fine estimates to a whopping 70,000 in Indian rupees.