To fill the Ted Lasso-sized hole in your heart, Apple TV+ has announced that a brand new documentary series about newly-confirmed Inter Miami player Lionel Messi is on the way.
With exclusive behind-the-scenes access to the global superstar, the currently untitled four-part affair revisits the seven-time Ballon d’Or winner’s rise and rise, culminating at the moment he led the Argentina national team to a historic victory at the 2022 FIFA World Cup (Qatar).
Just days before last year’s tournament kicked off, Messi told the filmmakers: “It would be the ultimate experience to win a World Cup and to be able to close out my career in that way.”
“I’ve daydreamed about it after many years of fighting for it. I made a million possibilities of what could happen… the first match, the Round of 16, the quarterfinals, the semi-final, and the final.”
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“I’m also going to live it as something special, because it’s the last one. To finish my last year winning a World Cup would be the dream ending.”
All in all, it promises to be both an intimate and unprecedented retrospective of the GOAT’s illustrious career.
Apple TV+’s Lionel Messi documentary series – which has been filmed in Paris, Qatar, and Argentina – has been executive produced by the Emmy Award-winning Tim Pastore (Free Solo, Jane), Emmy and Tony winners Patrick Milling Smith and Brian Carmody, yet another Emmy winner in SMUGGLER Entertainment’s Matt Renner (Free Solo, Limitless with Chris Hemsworth), alongside Jon Henion (Welcome to Wrexham) and Juan Camilo Cruz (In Her Hands).
The entire series has been produced for Apple by SMUGGLER Entertainment in association with Pegsa – stay tuned for the trailer and release date.
