Lionel Messi made
his PSG debut against Reims on Sunday, applauded by most of the 21,000 fans in
attendance. He replaced Neymar in the 65th minute for what could be the
greatest substitution in history. The star for PSG that night was however
Kylian Mbappe who scored a brace in what could be his final game in a PSG
shirt, securing a 2-0 victory for PSG.
Messi however
struck records out of the field - his debut was the most-watched Ligue 1
fixture in the history of TV fixtures in France. In Spain, his debut averaged
over 2 million viewers, making it the most-watched French football game in the
country. Figures revealed show that the match had an average audience of 2.2
million viewers in Spain.
Kosmos Holding, Gerard Pique's company, secured the
rights to Ligue 1 following Messi's move to Paris in August. Only Telecinco and
Llanos in Spain secured access to Messi's debut, with a license from Kosmos.
Llanos's Twitch channel avraged 2 million unique Spanish viewers, and
Telecinco, 2,214,000.
After the game, Reims goalkeeper Predrag
RajkovicPredrag Rajkovic asked Messi to pose for a picture with his son, which
Messi gladly did.
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