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ICC T20 World Cup: Edited Image Of Lionel Messi Watching Rohit Sharma’s Highlights Against Australia Viral

Written By Kushel HM, Edited By Pankaj Menon
Jun 27, 2024
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Claim

Argentina’s football captain Lionel Messi watches highlights of Rohit Sharma’s sixes against Australia’s Mitchell Starc on TV, while training in a gym.

The archived version of the tweet can be seen here.

Fact

Newschecker ran a reverse image search of keyframes of the video, which led us to this tweet by a Twitter fanpage dedicated to football club Barcelona, dated December 30, 2019, where you can see that the player is on a treadmill, watching highlights of his matches.

A further search led us to multiple write-ups on the photo from December 2019, seen here, here and here, stating that a picture of Messi watching himself in action while on the treadmill has gone viral and that it had been clicked by a fan who was stunned to see the football star in her gym.

“Valentina Jure was just going to the gym. She thought it’d be a day like any other. Suddenly, through the door came a familiar face. At first, she wasn’t sure it was really him. But soon enough, she realised for sure. Lionel Messi had just entered a gym in Fisherton, a neighbourhood in Rosario, the city from which the Argentine legend hails,” read a Barca Blaugranes report, dated December 31, 2019, adding, “Valentina has proof, a photograph of the Barcelona star training on the treadmill. Amusingly, the TVs are showing a compilation of his goals and he is watching them as he runs. She posted the picture on Twitter.” The tweet can be seen here, which confirms that the viral image is edited.

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Result: Altered Media

Sources
Tweet, Barca Universal, December 30, 2019
Barca Blaugranes report, December 31, 2019
Tweet, Valentina, December 30, 2019


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