Women are throwing themselves at Lionel Messi. Literally

By: Bob | July 9th, 2007

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gWhhe8yQOw

In simpler times groupies would throw their undergarments at performers to grab their attention. I speak from experience. That isn’t enough in this modern age. In order to make yourself known you have to throw yourself at a player as we see in the video above. All that for a hug. You have to jump out of a skyscraper to get a peck on the cheek. It didn’t even faze Lionel Messi. He must have learned that from Maradona.

Category: South America, World Football

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• David Keyes |  July 9th, 2007 at 4:00 pm

  
  
  

  Dive! Yellow card! You see how easily she went down? Oh jeez, that has a double meaning I didn’t intend.

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• Juliet |  July 9th, 2007 at 8:00 pm

  
  
  

  Sorry, random grammar check — it’s faze, not phase. And Messi is cool as a cucumber.

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• Sam |  July 9th, 2007 at 10:42 pm

  
  
  

  Sorry, random grammar check correction: in this instance, it’s spelt faze.

  Faze: to drive away, frighten, from Middle English fesen, from Old English fEsian to drive away

  Phase: a particular appearance or state in a regularly recurring cycle of changes

  Posted from Canada

  

• Laurie |  July 9th, 2007 at 11:41 pm

  
  
  

  I am quite certain that Bob parcels out his affection for his bloggers by who corrects his grammar the least.

  Bob, did I mention the words faze or phase? Ever? I think not. This obviously makes me THE best Offside blogger.

  Do you hear that, Sam and Julien? Me. Not you. Me.

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• Laurie |  July 9th, 2007 at 11:45 pm

  
  
  

  Oops. Yeah. I can’t read, either. Sorry, Julien/Juliet.

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• Brian |  July 10th, 2007 at 6:55 am

  
  
  

  Only in South America do girls throw themselves at Hobbits.

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• Trent |  July 10th, 2007 at 7:20 am

  
  
  

  “Are gringos falling from the sky?!”

  /El Guapo

  Posted from United States

  

• 5 Pound Bag |  July 10th, 2007 at 8:00 am

  
  
  

  This happens to Carlos Tevez too, because his glance turns women to stone.

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• Brian |  July 10th, 2007 at 8:19 am

  
  
  

  You could pretty much recast the Three Amigos with the Argentina squad:
  Lionel Messi as Ned Nederlander (Martin Short)
  Juan Riquelme as Dusty Bottoms (Chevy Chase)
  Javier Zanetti as Lucky Day (Martin Short)
  Carlito Tevez as El Guapo
  Javier Mascherano as Jefe
  Almost any player as Harry Flugleman (Joe Mantegna)
  and stick a mustache on Basile and you have the ‘My Little Buttercup’ singing Bartendar

  Basile: “We don’t have beer, just Tequila”
  Messi: “What’s Tequla?”
  Basile: “It’s like beer.”

  Posted from United States

  

• mcbias |  July 10th, 2007 at 1:02 pm

  
  
  

  I think it’s funny that Lionel paused just for a second, thus throwing off the woman’s timing for her jump. Otherwise, she does land on him.

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• OGrandeTrinco |  July 11th, 2007 at 12:02 pm

  
  
  

  lol, Messi paused because he sensed feet were coming in, man his skills r impressive.

  Posted from Canada

  

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