.A photo of Lionel Messi flaunting a Collingwood jumper has got tongues wagging. The Magpies shared a photo of the Argentinian soccer legend to their social media sites accounts on Tuesday, and also the upload has sent footy fans in to meltdown.Watch every video game of the NAB AFL Women's Premiership Period LIVE with no ad-breaks throughout play on Kayo. New to Kayo? Start your free of cost trial today > The upload revealed Messi supporting a Collingwood shirt with "Daicos 7/35" on the back-- those varieties come from Magpies superstars Josh as well as Scar Daicos.Grand FinalIMAGINE WHAT YOU MIGHT BE PURCHASING INSTEAD. For Free as well as classified assistance phone call 1800u00a0858u00a0858 or check out gamblinghelponline.org.au.Collingwood captioned the post: "Trade target verified", along with a goat and also eyes emoji.It's uncertain if Messi was in Australia for the photo op. Collingwood told news.com.au the shirt swap took place at exterior occasion two of their gamers were welcomed to and also had not been set up the club.Messi is actually currently in his second season playing for Big league Football side Inter Miami, that get on leading of the Eastern Conference status. The MLS finals set kicks off in late October. Scar Daicos discussed the photograph in an Instagram album that also included a breeze of an authorized Messi Argentina shirt from the 2022 FIFA Globe Cup.Lionel Messi accepts of the white and black threads. Photo: Twitter, @CollingwoodFC. Resource: TwitterNick Daicos snagged himself an authorized Messi jacket. Picture: Instagram.Source: InstagramCollingwood diehards couldn't get sufficient of the sight of Messi storing a Daicos shirt, with several fans all making the same joke contrasting Messi to Geelong little ahead Gryan Miers.It all gets back to an event including Miers as well as commentator Gerard Whateley that went virus-like in July last year.A bogus tweet attributed to Whateley mentioned: "Gryan Miers is to AFL what Leo Messi is to soccer. Messi may kick more objectives, however Miers browses the area equally as properly. Perhaps even much better than Messi performs." The tweet blew up and gained more traction when the Fox Footy individuality attacked out at trolls, pointing out: "I certainly never mentioned this and it needs to be actually cleared away." Gryan Miers (appropriate) dressed as Lionel Messi finally year's Mad Monday parties. Photo: Jason EdwardsSource: News Corporation AustraliaMiers fed the tension through sprucing up in Messi's full Argentina kit for Geelong's Mad Monday treatment in the end of the season, as well as the operating joke it took on a brand-new lifestyle in this year's preliminary last between Brisbane and also Geelong. In a tight contest early in the second one-fourth, a jumping reception was actually merely kept in on the limit line through Miers.The 25-year-old at that point had the amount of time also the reception towards the goalsquare in a classic soccer-style cross, with the bending Sherrin sitting up wonderfully for Ollie Holly to slot the goal." Possesses anybody ever matched up Gryan Miers to Messi?" Whateley claimed getting in touch with the second on AFL Nation.So footy supporters had an area day as Messi postured with a Collingwood shirt with Daicos on the back.Jake Buckley said on X: "Kudos on signing Gryan Miers men." With the AFL off-season currently in full swing, someone quipped: "Profession Broadcast in Argentina ready to explode.Messi remains in the twilight of his job at Inter Miami. (Picture by Chris ARJOON/ AFP) Source: AFPNick Daicos is actually the among the AFL's most significant younger celebrities. Photo: NewsWire/ Michael KleinSource: Headlines Corporation AustraliaOne enthusiast created on Nick Daicos' message: "Messi to collingwood verified?" A secondly pointed out: "Can Messi break it coming from 40 on the run? Daicos my goat." A third joked: "Messi could find out a point or 2 from the goat." One more included: "Lovely that you received Gryan Miers to sign a sign for you." Previous Pies gamer Trey Ruscoe created: "Ronaldo a lot better." The sight of global football superstars marketing other codes in Australia has ended up being rather of a meme over the last few years. In 2022, Manchester United superstar Marcus Rashford posed along with a Sherrin at one more event marketing various other Aussie showing off codes that weren't football.The publicity act was actually knocked by local area volleyball (soccer) analysts as cringe-worthy and a missed opportunity to additional enhance the round ballgame in Australia.