Lionel Messiwinner of the last World Cup in Qatar 2022 with the Argentine national team, will have his own animated series, the specialized magazine announced exclusively on Monday Expiration.

The project will be produced by Sony Music Entertainment in collaboration with Leo Messi Management.

“Since I was a child, I have always liked animated series and my children are big ‘fans’ of animated characters. Being able to participate in an animation project makes me happy because it makes one of my dreams come true,” said Messi. Expiration. “I would like to thank Sony Music for joining this project and we hope everyone likes the result, especially girls and boys,” she said.

The series will be aimed at children and teenagers and will show the recent World Cup winner as a child and the obstacles he faces as he journeys through a video game.

In English, Spanish and several languages

The project, which will be produced in English, Spanish and other languages, will feature original music by as-yet-unannounced Sony artists and composers.

This will be the first animated series created by Sony Music Entertainment, a company that has previously made documentaries such as Pearl Jam 20 OR Cypress Hill: crazy in the brain.

Sony executive Fernando Cabral assured Expiration that it is “a privilege” for the club to have the opportunity to portray the strength and lessons of the sport thanks to Messi, chosen on February 27 as the best player of 2022 by FIFA.

Messi is the footballer who has featured in the most matches at different World Cups, with 26, and has scored 98 goals in 172 games for his country, as well as 474 goals in 520 games for his former club Barcelona.

And he is the only one to have won the French magazine’s Ballon d’Or seven times French football. On December 18, the best player of the final and of the 2022 World Cup was chosen, which Argentina won for the third time in its history.

Since 2021, Messi has been playing for Paris Saint-Germain, where he has scored 18 goals in 46 games.