Lionel Messi turned down a two-year chance to play for Al-Hilal club in Saudi Arabia before moving to Miami to play for Inter Miami. His decision was based on financial concerns.
Early in August, soccer star Lionel Messi continued to get attention from watch fans when he wore his newest Patek Philippe Aquanaut. GQ says the 36-year-old player is wearing a Chronograph Ref. 5968G with a blue rubber strap worth 75,700 USD (more than 1.8 billion VND).
Lionel Messi and David Beckham, the owner of Real Madrid, have been seen together a lot since Messi signed a deal with Real Madrid. For another thing, Victoria Beckham and Antonela Roccuzzo’s wives went out over the weekend.
Messi seems to be having a great time since he moved to Miami, Florida, USA, in July. Football fans may have noticed this. He has not only kept up his top-scoring form—scoring 10 goals in 7 games and winning the 2023 Leagues Cup—but he has also been seen a lot of times in the Caribbean with the Beckham family.
Ever since he joined David Beckham’s Inter Miami team, Lionel Messi has been in great shape. Picture: AFP.
“American football’s golden striker” Messi makes between $50 and $60 million a season at Inter Miami, according to CBS News. At the same time, Argentinians are becoming more and more interested in expensive watches and other brand goods.
Miami real estate that is worth a lot of money
The Spanish news service Cadena Ser says that Messi and his family are living in the apartment he bought in 2019 at Porsche Design Tower. Messi paid 5 million USD, which is more than 120 billion VND at the time, for an apartment in a high-end building with its own class.
The best thing about this high-end building is the car lift that lets people park their cars right in their private rooms. The Porsche Design Tower is on the beach, which is one of the most exclusive and expensive parts of Miami. It is 21 km north of downtown Miami and only 400 meters from Trump Tower. The building is 196 m tall and has 132 apartments on its 57 floors.
The Porsche Design Tower is a lot bigger than the buildings around it. Picture from pdtowermiami.com.
The residents of Porsche Design Tower, many of whom are rich businessmen, can also go to a restaurant that is only open to them.
Messi has a fortune of $600 million, which is about VND 14,436 billion. The flat in Porsche Design Tower is worth that much because it is a home fit for a soccer star.
An elevator makes it possible for Lionel Messi to park his car in his flat. Picture from pdtowermiami.com.
Messi’s nickname, “El Pulga,” also owns the whole 9th floor of the high-end Regalia apartment building. This apartment has 4 bedrooms, 6 bathrooms, a cooler that can hold up to 1,000 bottles of drinks, and a deck on the roof with a view of the ocean.
The Regalia building also has a spa, exercise center, 6 swimming pools, and a playhouse for kids. The shared space is named “a villa in the sky in the most unique building in South Florida” and is There are 39 floors in this high-end apartment.
Messi owns the whole 9th floor of the Regalia building as well. Picture: Marca.
Have a party with the Beckham family
Messi’s family took a trip to the Caribbean before he signed a deal with the club. Ahead of the next part of his football career, Messi made the most of his free time by relaxing on the beach.
On this trip, Messi also made sure to wear clothes from high-end names. He was sitting next to the family’s private pool with a cool drink in his hand and green Balmain swim trunks worth $500 USD (12 million VND).
David Beckham has wanted to get some of the best players in the world since he bought Inter Miami in 2021. He wants to improve the club’s performance and make an American team that can fight on the international stage. the world. It looks like this dream will come true now that they have signed Messi.
In picture after photo on their personal pages, the two football stars were seen together a lot, and they became close friends. Messi shared a picture of himself, his wife Antonela Roccuzzo, David Beckham and his wife, football player Sergio Busquets, and his girlfriend Elena Galera, all of them having a “perfect dinner.”
Antonella Roccuzzo shared a picture a week later of a night out in Miami at a restaurant with Victoria Beckham and Elena Galera.
David Beckham is on the left, sitting with Lionel Messi, Sergio Busquets, and someone in a white shirt. Picture by @leomessi.
More and more high-end watches are being added to the collection.
Messi is impressive not only on the field but also with his high-end watches. He hasn’t let down his fans since he got to Miami.
Fans of watches were shocked when Messi wore the Patek Philippe Aquanaut Chronograph model 5968G. Picture: Robb Report.
At the launch of Inter Miami, the millionaire player wore a watch from Patek Philippe’s line for women. It’s an Aquanaut Factory set made of rose gold with 40 sapphires of different colors. According to Hodinkee, this is the first automatic stopwatch for women made by the Swiss company.
Messi always has the right watch for the event because he has so many. After that, the star was seen on a flight in early August wearing a pink Inter Miami suit and a Patek 18K rose gold Nautilus.
He kept getting points when he wore an 18K white gold Nautilus with a permanent calendar that cost about 240,000 USD, which is about 5.7 billion VND.