Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo starred in a photograph for the latest campaign of the luxury brand Louis Vuitton.
Those considered the best soccer players of the last 15 years were photographed by the prestigious American Annie Leibowitz and the advertising campaign came to light a few hours before the start of the World Cup in Qatar, where both players will be protagonists.
However, a couple of details emerged after the photo was released, an image that, by the way, went viral to more than 50 million reactions on the different Instagram accounts of the players and Louis Vuitton.
A piece of information that became known later is that the clothing brand managed to get both of them to star in the campaign, but did not photograph them together. The image is a very well done montage of two photos of Leibowitz taken on different days.
This was demonstrated in a video that the brand published later and in which it can be seen that Messi and CR7 were not together for the occasion.
Louis Vuitton, Messi and Ronaldo reproduced a chess classic
On the other hand, the image has a detail that only chess experts could know.
That’s how it is, the game played by the Portuguese and the Argentine in the photo of the Louis Vuitton advertising campaign is based on a game that really existed Come in magnus carlsenworld chess champion, with Hikaru Nakamura, challenger, who finished tied.
The original game happened in 2017, in a tournament played in Norway, in 2017.
For many, it is one of the best chess games in history.
As understood, the protagonists of the game, Carlsen and Nakamura, represent the rivalry between Lionel and Cristiano.
In the image, they should move the black pieces, the ones that Messi has, to sign the tie.
The world chess champion, Carlsen, joked on his Twitter account about the photo that recreates the game with Nakamura.
“Victory is a state of mind. Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi captured by Annie Leibovitz for Louis Vuitton. La Maison celebrates two of today’s most talented soccer players”, says the text published on the networks by Louis Vuitton along with the image of the photograph taken by the prestigious artist.
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