Lionel Messi is arguably the best player of his era and there was a time in his career he looked up to great players that also made name for in the game of football.

Messi is used to opposition asking him for his shirt after the game but it was also the same for the Barcelona captain when he played against the current Real Madrid manager Zinedine Zidane in the El-Clasico during the playing days of the French maestro.”I’m don’t ask for shirts, I usually swap them, but I asked Zidane once,” Messi said in an interview with TyC Sports a few years ago.

“If there is an Argentine I swap it with him, but, unless someone asks me, I’m not asking anyone.”The game Messi referred to was a Clasico that was played at the Estadio Santiago Bernabeu, with Zidane wearing a shirt with the No.5 on his back.