The leader of the national team of Argentina Lionel Messi played the match of the third round of the group stage of World Cup 2018 against Nigeria in an unusual talisman.

It turned out that the star striker played the match in an amulet, which he gave the journalist. Interestingly, in the end it helped Messi and he first scored in the net of the opponent's goal on this Mundiale.

"My beloved mother sent Messi a red ribbon from failures - the maestro tied her to his left leg," wrote on his page on Twitter reporter Rama Pantaroto. After the game, Lionel showed this lucky talisman. Recall that the meeting between Argentina and Nigeria ended with a score of 2: 1 in favor of "albiseleste". This result allowed Argentina to crawl into the 1/8 finals of the world championship.

____________________________ Recall that 9 countries, including Ukraine, Australia, Finland, Japan, Denmark, Iceland, Great Britain, Poland, Sweden, declared a diplomatic boycott of the World Championship in Russia. The reasons for this were the Russian Federation's invasion of Ukraine and Syria, the poisoning of Russian ex-intelligence agent Sergey Skripal in Britain, the starvation of Ukrainian political prisoners, including the director Oleg Sentsov, and the systematic violation of human rights in the Russian Federation.

Unlimited hunger strike Sentsov announced May 14, 2018. His main demand is the dismissal of more than 60 Ukrainian political prisoners who are behind bars in Russia. This requirement of the director was supported by the US State Department, the EU, the Canadian Parliament and.

2015 Russian court illegally sentenced Sentsov to 20 years in a strict-regime colony. The actions in support of the director took place all over the world, including in Russia.