During Inter Miami’s victory over Toronto FC, Leo Messi gave an order to his bodyguard that had more than 12 million views.
It’s a relationship that stopped being between boss and employee a long time ago. Yassine Cheuko, Lionel Messi’s bodyguard, was spending a second season working for the Argentine player in the United States very quietly and without making the news, but suddenly he was the protagonist of a video that surpassed 12 million views on X.
After an incomplete first campaign in which it was denied that he was a member of the United States Navy and was in the war in Afghanistan, more details began to be known about Leo Messi’s bodyguard.
Yassine Cheuko revealed, according to the newspaper ‘The Daily Mail’, that ” Messi does not only consider me his bodyguard but also a friend. We talk, laugh and get to know each other’s personalities together. He always invites me to lunch and treats me well.” And that would not be all, an anecdote with the eighth Ballon d’Or that the Argentine player won showed why they understand each other with just a gesture.
“When he won the Ballon d’Or winner we were on the plane and he said to me: ‘Yassine, take the Ballon d’Or in your hand!’ I said: ‘Okay’. At first, I thought he wanted me to take him somewhere else and then when I took him, he said to his son and his wife: ‘The winner of the Ballon d’Or for best bodyguard is Yassine”, Cheuko confessed on July 31, 2024.
With the clarity of how close Leo Messi and Yassine Cheuko are, the time has come to see why the Argentine player’s bodyguard was chosen to take care of him since he is an Inter Miami player. And not only that! He did things so well that he even perfectly understood the order that the ’10’ gave him with a simple gesture that would have millions of views on X.
Messi and his bodyguard reached more than 12 million views with this video
During Inter Miami’s victory against Toronto FC on the penultimate matchday of MLS 2024, a fan wearing an FC Barcelona shirt entered the BMO Field stadium pitch and Cheuko immediately started running to try to stop him and start gaining thousands of views. Messi’s bodyguard managed to stop him before he could fulfill his dream, but Leo, with the simple gesture of approaching this fan, gave the order to let him take the photo and ended up contributing more than enough for the video to reach more than 12 million views on X.
MLS announces when the Playoffs begin for Messi and Inter Miami
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