Football icon Lionel Messi has been announced as a Co-Owner of Argentine organisation KRU Esports.
Messi, who has recently just got his hands on a record-breaking eighth Ballon d’Or trophy (crowning him as the best player in the world throughout 2023), has been unveiled as Co-Owner of KRU on social media.
The legend of football will join a catalogue of high-calibre players who back esports organisations, most namely his best friend Sergio Aguero.
Messi joins Aguero as KRU Esports Co-Owner
Lionel Messi has been announced as Co-Owner of KRU Esports as the organisation took to Twitter.
He will also join Sergio Aguero – he is also Aguero’s son’s Godfather – as Co-Owner, as the former Man City and Atletico Madrid star founded the organisation back in 2020.
KRU Esports are now most known for their Rocket League and VALORANT rosters, so much so that Aguero visited both the RLCS World Championship finals in Dusseldorf and the VCT Champions in Los Angeles in August of this year.
Messi becomes the latest of football’s big names to dip into esports
The 36-year-old who now plays his trade in the American Major League Soccer for Inter Miami becomes one of many professional footballers to dabble in esports – Miami owner David Beckham being among them.
Becks is already a long-standing Co-Owner of the UK-based Guild Esports, while Messi’s ex-teammate Neymar also has stakes in Brazillian brand FURIA Esports.
Other football figures involved in esports include Casemiro (Case Esports), Pique (KOI Esports), Gareth Bale (Ellevens Esports), David De Gea (Rebels), and many more.
