Viral: The best worst tattoos immortalizing Lionel Messi lifting the World Cup in Qatar

“You can fail,” said the magician Tusam in the 80s and 90s when he performed risky tricks. The consecration of Argentina in Qatar with Lionel Messi as the highest banner has led many fans to record that glorious moment firsthand, but the magician was right.

Tattoos, they say, must be well thought out, designed and crafted by experts, as they are known to be for life. The body ornament will be there until there is not even skin left. The worst portraits of the 10th Argentine with the long-awaited World Cup have gone viral on social media.

One of the first to circulate was a profile drawing of Rosario kissing the trophy. Without colors or too many details, but conspicuously thin and with the left hand disproportionate to the rest of the body. The three stars and the date of the final with France decorate an almost shaky Messi in his most glorious moment.

Another one, better done from the neck down, holding the Cup, obviously, was about to miss the list of failed tattoos. In this case, the prominent nose with which the former Barcelona ex was reproduced on a fan’s leg casts doubts on whether it is the 30-year-old from PSG or someone he knows and always wanted to be him.

The third appeared, already in color, combines characteristics of the previous two. The worrying thinness of his arms holding the World Cup, extraordinarily large, albeit, yes, with his well-known detailed tattoos.

Messi isn’t too stocky, but he doesn’t have feeding problems either.

The face created by the tattoo artist, for its part, seems to be closer to a tribute to Fabián Cubero, sub-20 champion in Malaysia 1997, than to the Argentine captain, consecrated for eternity also in Asia, but in Qatar.

We couldn’t miss the phrase of the Dutch striker Wout Weghorst after the match in the quarterfinals, “what are you looking at, you idiot”.

If the tattoo in question lacked more precision to capture Messi’s face. More like a boxer, with a flat nose and inflamed cheekbones and an incomprehensible reproduction of the Argentine shirt, the most famous insult in World Cup history was immortalized in that customer.

Also in this case the three stars and the trophy are present, but this time with the novelty of a 5 with a cup of Spanish cards, which refer to another myth in the career of the team’s top scorer.

Fat Messi on another customer’s back was all the rage in the networks. For some, more like the “Orco” Fabbiani than the captain of La Scaloneta, the level of detail in the rest of his body is to be commended, however the nutritionists at the AFA would not have fulfilled their duties if Messi were really that overweight .

Another, which recalls his consecration in the Maracana, shows Messi on his knees with feet so small that they wouldn’t allow him to be a footballer, although some say that the smaller the size of the shoes they wear, the better they hit the ball.

The list of alleged Lionels who are anything but similar to the real one has become endless on Twitter, could have the final touch with the young man who has decided to get “Messi” tattooed on his forehead, “D10S” on the side of his face and the three stars, representing the three World Cups won by Argentina, in the other.

“May fail” and failed. If even Messi himself failed and Diego Maradona made a mistake and paid off.

Dibu is no longer Martinez

Other fans have chosen to decorate their bodies with other figures from the national team, one of the most requested being the goalkeeper Emiliano “Dibu” Martínez.

One, he wanted to portray the moment in which the Aston Villa player receives the award for the best in his position in the World Cup and, before the Qatari authorities, emulates what was done in Brazil, and puts it in his groin.

However, there is a tattoo artist who will have to explain and offer a sort of solution to the Argentine fan who has the 23 gloves on his back, with the Argentine flags and the phrase “look what I’m eating”, but above all that, a real confusion of identity.

“Dibu Fernández” is like in that house of tattoos one of the figures of the last world champion was renamed until the start of the United States-Mexico-Canada in 2026.