For many it was controversial, for others it was strange. Lionel Messi was dressed in a tunic given to him by the Emir of Qatar, at the award ceremony for Argentina as the 2022 FIFA World Cup champion.
It’s called bisht and it was one of the surprises that Messi received, minutes before lifting the coveted World Cup trophy. Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani was in charge of putting the tunic on his shoulders and now that garment is coveted by a lawyer, who is willing to pay a large sum of money for it.
This is Ahmed Al Barwani, a lawyer from Oman, who has offered Messi up to a million dollars for the famous tunic.
“My friend Messi, I congratulate you on winning. I am offering you a million dollars to give me that bisht”, the lawyer wrote to Messi via Twitter.
In an interview with The National, the lawyer expressed his pride to see the Arab world exposed so positively: “This tournament has been a source of pride and has highlighted important facts about the fact that we have forgotten Palestine and that the Arabs They are united”.
Al Barwani’s idea is not to wear the robe. “It will be exhibited to commemorate this proud moment, and to help us revive it, and also to remind us that we can do anything,” confessed the lawyer, who was in the World Cup final and is still waiting for a response from Messi.
