What did they give Messi to receive the Cup?

The photo that will go around the world, the one that Lionel Messi He waited so long, and that he arrived in his fifth and last World Cup, has a particularity: before receiving the World Cup in his hands, the emir of Qatar, Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, put a kind of semi-transparent cape or dressing gown on him Qatar’s traditional award to the best player in the world and the image will go down in history.

It was strange to see Leo in a robe over the National Team shirt. It’s not common for something like this to happen. What’s more, it must be the first time in history that a player receives the cup in a dark robe. Unpublished. The robe is a Besht, which is worn by the emir, ministers and relevant people on Qatar National Day, which is – coincidentally – this Sunday.

Leo received the cup from the hands of the emir and Gianni Infantino, FIFA president, in charge of going out on the stage installed on the grass for the awards ceremony together with the French president, Emmanuel Macron, the presidents of Conmebol and UEFA, Alejandro Domínguez and Aleksander Ceferin, and those from the federations, Claudio Tapia and Noel Le Graet.