Lionel Messi’s departure from his childhood club Barcelona created worldwide tremor and the hype was so high now it is claimed that the tissue he used during his emotion-drenched farewell speech is on sale for a whopping 1 million $, reports 90 min.
During his farewell speech, when Messi couldn't hold back his tears while expressing his feelings on leaving the club, his wife Antonella gave him a tissue paper to wipe them off.
According to Complete Sports, a man, who sat at the front row of the same press conference, managed to scoop up the discarded tissue paper.
The person auctioning the tissue on Meikeduo, quoted by Rojakdaily hilariously claimed that the tissue contained Messi’s genetic material that would allow you to clone a football player like him.
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Meanwhile, PSG have already ended up selling as many as a million Lionel Messi jerseys in their stores and online, in just a week since the Argentine maestro signed up for the club.
Each Messi shirt is priced in the range from €115 to € 165, and if the prices are to be counted than the Argentinian's jerseys have meant that PSG have already earned $100,000,000 in just three days.