How would Messi, Cristiano Ronaldo and other football stars look like in the 86 World Cup: the publication was a rage on networks

From its official page focused on the World Cup, the FIFA surprised millions of users after publishing the last post on their social networks in which he tried to simulate what the current sports stars would look like if they had played the 1986 World Cup in Mexico.

“Mexico 86 inspired a generation of fans and players. Join us this week to celebrate 35 years since they delighted the world, ”he wrote this Monday. FIFA World Cup on your page Instagram next to a photo in which the colors stand out albicelestes, champions of that edition.

In the last hours, the account continued with its proposal and, in addition to sharing a video with the top ten goals of that tournament, he uploaded a compilation of images that have already been echoed by thousands of users.

In the publication in question, FIFA chose a handful of today’s great footballers, with Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi as references, and took their faces to the past, to show what they would look like if they had participated in the world championship 35 years ago.

With the Portugal shirt, the Portuguese star appeared with curly hair and a prominent mustache, while the captain of the Copa América champion team could be seen with a beard that he usually uses but with a longer and straighter hairstyle than usual.

Neymar with Brazil, N’golo Kante with France, Romelu Lukaku with Belgium Y Kai havertz with Germany they were also protagonists of the original digital transformations. All the pictures together reached more than 100 thousand likes in less than an hour.

In this idea of ​​remembering the 1986 World Cup in Mexico that FIFA undertook from July 12 to Friday 16, one of the publications that generated more interactions with fans was the recreation of the “Goal of the Century”, the work of art that left Diego Armando Maradona in the quarter-final match against England at the Azteca Stadium.

“Recreating Maradona’s Goal of the Century is not an easy task”, they wrote next to the video in which a group of Argentines in London remembered the goal of the Argentine ten. The proposal reached 270 thousand likes.

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