Lionel Messi grants referee’s unusual request after Inter Miami win but waited until they’d left the pitch

LIONEL MESSI had a precise antithetic enactment with a referee this week.

Messi, 37, has done and seen it each passim his glittering 21-year career.

Inter Miami superstar Lionel Messi was asked for his garment by the REFEREEGetty

Messi played successful the sub-zero temperatures of Kansas against Sporting KCRex

Messi handed implicit his prized No10 garment to the referee backstageAP

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Referee Marco Antonio Ortiz Nara approached Messi aft the full-time whistle[/caption]

The prima guardant has won 8 Ballon d’Or awards, 4 Champions League trophies, 10 LaLiga titles, 2 Copa America honours and the World Cup.

And the Argentina planetary has played each astir the satellite against the champion shot has to offer.

But possibly thing could hole the Inter Miami superstar for what helium encountered connected Thursday successful the sub-zero temperatures of Kansas.

Messi and co visited Sporting KC astatine the freezing Children’s Mercy Park successful the archetypal circular of the Concacaf Champions Cup.

The visitors braved the atrocious cold, with temperatures going arsenic debased arsenic -22C.

The Barcelona fable led Javier Mascherano’s broadside to a 1-0 triumph acknowledgment to his victor connected 56 minutes, which marked his archetypal authoritative extremity of the calendar year.

Messi’s show yet enactment to furniture the cliche mentation of whether helium could nutrient the aforesaid magic connected a “cold Tuesday nighttime successful Stoke” arsenic helium shone agleam against Sporting.

According to ESPN, the ex-Paris Saint-Germain prima past received a precise antithetic petition from the referee.

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Mexican authoritative Marco Antonio Ortiz Nara approached Messi aft the full-time whistle.

And Nara asked the Argentine large for his SHIRT as a memento – a contented usually reserved for players.

The MLS superstar agreed but passed connected his prized No10 jersey backstage successful the dressing country aboriginal on.

That wasn’t due to the fact that of the freezing temperatures, but alternatively that the Inter Miami prima wanted to debar immoderate imaginable contention connected the field.