Quarantine’s hit Messi arduous! French TV station makes use of image of Lionel lookalike in coronavirus information bulletin blunder

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A French TV station had an embarrassing blunder after they used a picture of a Lionel Messi doppleganger in a information report about well-known sports activities stars making charitable donations to assist in the battle towards the coronavirus.

French station M6 broadcast a picture of Swiss tennis ace Roger Federer alongside what they thought was an image of Barcelona star Messi, however as a substitute used of Iranian lookalike Reza Parastesh who bears an uncanny – if considerably extra portly – resemblance to the six-time Ballon d’Or winner.

Parastesh got here to international consideration some years in the past for that reason and M6 are the most recent group to have mistake him for his world well-known counterpart.

He has turn out to be one thing of a star in his homeland and at one level in 2017 required police safety as a result of commotion he was inflicting on the streets of Iran as soccer followers clamoured for an image with him.

“Now individuals actually see me because the Iranian Messi and need me to imitate all the pieces he does,” he mentioned of his sudden fame on the time.

“After I present up someplace, persons are actually shocked.”

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The precise Lionel Messi had made headlines after Barcelona gamers agreed to a cost-cutting measure to have their salaries adjusted within the wake of the coronavirus outbreak in Spain in a transfer designed to restrict the monetary burden on the membership with La Liga at the moment indefinitely suspended.

The Argentina captain has additionally revealed particulars of a $ 1.1 million donation which might be break up between a hospital in Barcelona and one other in his hometown of Rosario in his homeland.

Federer, in the meantime, has organized for a $ 1 million donation to households probably weak to the virus in Switzerland – among the many newest strikes made by sports activities stars of their efforts to help within the battle towards coronavirus.