WATCH: Lionel Messi stops mid-traffic to sign Argentina shirt – with Inter Miami superstar sending fans wild with kind gesture

Lionel Messi is accustomed to stopping traffic, and the Inter Miami superstar has now taken to granting shirt signing requests through his car window.

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• All-time great won World Cup in 2022
• Now plying his club trade in the United States
• Happy to mingle with his adoring fans

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  WHAT HAPPENED?

  The eight-time Ballon d’Or winner has regularly handed out autographs and posed for pictures when leaving training centres at Barcelona and Paris Saint-Germain, but there will not have been too many occasions when he had to leave his mark on a replica jersey while pulled up at traffic lights.

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• THE BIGGER PICTURE

  That, though, is precisely what happened when the 2022 World Cup winner was out and about living his everyday life. Messi is now plying his club trade in MLS for Inter Miami and has seen his profile soar in the United States.

• DID YOU KNOW?

  One lucky group of supporters were able to stop alongside Messi during a road trip, and they were not prepared to let that moment pass them by. The all-time great was happy to meet their autograph request, as he scribbled on an Argentina jersey, and amid the screams aimed in his direction could be heard: “I love you more than my dad!”