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The top 10 of the best-selling shirts in the MLS, the place occupied by Messi

The best-selling shirts in the MLS, look at the place Lionel Messi occupies

By Diego Mendoza

17/09/2024, 07:18 PM

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It was expected that the best-selling shirt this season would be that of Lionel Messi, in second place is Luis Suárez, third place is held by Denis Bouanga, fourth place belongs to Luciano Acosta while fifth place is completed by the Venezuelan Cucho Hernández who has a great season so far.

For its part, sixth place is occupied by Olivier Giroud, the Frenchman who arrived this season, seventh place belongs to Riqui Puig, eighth place goes to the German Hany Mukhtar, an American recently appears in ninth place, Jordan Morri and Finally, in tenth place is Pedro de la Vega, these are the players with the best-selling shirts.

Since Messi arrived in the MLS, football is perceived differently and the Argentine's media impact is notorious, according to CNN: "Just 45 minutes after signing his contract with Inter Miami, the '10' shirt became the best-selling in the league. On social networks, the number of followers of the MLS account on TikTok grew 26% and participation in posts on Instagram shot up 50% after Messi's signing And this has a lot to offer. to do with the age of the average soccer fan in the United States," the aforementioned media revealed.

More than for the football aspect, the reason why Messi came to the MLS was for a commercial issue, everything has to do with this sense, sale of shirts, television rights, investment from transnational companies, box office in the stadiums. There is a universe of situations that revolve around the arrival of Lionel Messi to soccer in the United States.

In the MLS they know that Messi's arrival was historic

Commissioner Don Garber of the MLS spoke about how Lionel Messi helped his league in every way: “He is the best player of all time who came to our league. I believe that history will recognize 2023 as the Year of Messi. But from my own perspective, it was perhaps the most spectacular year in our history for several reasons.”

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