Messi Poses With Goat As He Covers PAPER Magazine’s Maiden Sports Issue

Barcelona star, Lionel Messi graced the cover of PAPER Magazine’s first-ever Sports-centric issue which is in partnership with Adidas.

The 5 time Ballon d’Or winner posed on the cover of the magazine with an actual goat which is supposed to allude to him being Greatest Of All Times (G.O.A.T)

The cover story runs through Messi’s brief, yet successful, career on the pitch. From humble beginnings at La Masia — “He was extremely short,” Messi’s teammate Gerard Piqué notes — to his jaw-dropping run in 2009, which saw Barcelona nabbing all six possible titles it could have earned in one single year.

The Argentine also touched on a host of different topics, from his favored tea to his take on his own Argentinian national team

He said:

“We still have to make ourselves stronger as a team to be in the running to win and be at the same level as other teams like France, Germany, Brazil or Spain,” Messi notes. “But we have a good group of players and the Argentine team is always going to be a candidate to win, it doesn’t matter how we get there.”