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Police ‘arrest’ Messi Iranian lookalike

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Iranian student Reza Parastesh looks so
much like his sporting hero Lionel Messi
that it almost landed him in jail for
disrupting public order this week, AFP
reports.


So many people came out to take selfies
with Parastesh in the western city of
Hamedan over the weekend that police
rushed him into a station and impounded
his car to stop the chaos and clear traffic.


The resemblance is so uncanny that
Eurosport UK reportedly used his photo by
accident on Twitter recently when talking
about the real Messi.


The furore began a few months ago when
Parastesh’ s football - mad father pressured
the 25-year -old into posing in a number 10
Barcelona jersey and sending the pictures
to a sports website .


“I sent them one night and by the morning
they had called me and said I should come
in quickly for an interview , ” he told AFP.
Despite his early reluctance , Parastesh soon
grew into his new role , cutting his hair like
Messi and often donning the Barca jersey
when he goes out .


It has paid off — he is fully booked with
media interviews and has even landed
modelling contracts .
“Now people really see me as the Iranian
Messi and want me to mimic everything he
does. When I show up somewhere, people
are really shocked, ” he said .

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