Tuesday, October 8

Messi would have made Adidas collapse due to the demand for shirts before the Qatar 2022 final

Lionel Messi celebrando la victoria en semifinales ante Croacia.
Lionel Messi celebrating the victory in the semifinals against Croatia.

Photo: JUAN MABROMATA / AFP / Getty Images

The Argentine team and Lionel Messi have been a sensation throughout the World Cup in Qatar 1200. A few days before the final on Sunday at the Lusail Stadium vs. France, the albiceleste shirts with the 11 on the back would be sold out in various branches of the Adidas brand world .

This was reported this Thursday by the journalist Miguel Ángel Lara of the Spanish newspaper Marca. Both in Doha , Tokyo or other cities such as Madrid and Buenos Aires do not have any size of Argentine shirts with the Messi print.

Apparently, the The shirt has been sold out for several weeks and the Argentine Football Association has had to make a statement about the situation, according to the aforementioned media.

“We can’t do anything, although it is convenient for us to sell more. It is a matter of Adidas and there are problems in the country that affect them, such as the obstacles to imports and the lack of labor, and also the high effervescence of the people”, would be the response of the AFA reported by Marca.

The Iberian tabloid assured that Adidas has already established a position and “it is impossible overnight to trigger production to replace a product that I knew it would work very well, but not as well as for this worldwide collapse in face-to-face stores and virtual sales”.

Argentina’s great performance in the ecumenical competition has triggered demand for albiceleste shirts, including those of Lionel Messi, who recently declared that this would be his last Cup as a player.

Messi has been the emblematic player of the German brand for several years. Adidas recently paid tribute on social networks with a publication where eleven balls agglomerate to allude to the “12 goals that we scream with our soul”, the amount of annotations of ‘La Pulga’ in World Cups.

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