Here’s how to get your Lionel Messi Inter Miami CF pink and black jerseys

Here’s how to get your Lionel Messi Inter Miami CF pink and black jerseys

A day after Lionel Messi met his Inter Miami fans, the superstar’s jersey is available for pre-order at Fanatics.

Inter Miami — after years of plotting, pleading and hoping — introduced arguably the game’s biggest star on Sunday night, presenting their new franchise player with his pink No. 10 jersey that millions of people will be buying over the coming weeks and months.

Lionel Messi Inter Miami CF jersey is now available for pre-order online at Fanatics (photo courtesy of Fanatics)

Lionel Messi Inter Miami CF jersey

Lionel Messi Inter Miami CF jersey is now available for pre-order online at Fanatics (photo courtesy of Fanatics)

Fanatics has plenty of options for all Messi fans.

Almost every seat was filled Sunday, despite horrible weather conditions that delayed the show, and nobody seemed to mind soaking rain that pounded down throughout the evening.

When Inter Miami began floating the notion that it would be the team to land Messi and bring the World Cup champion to Major League Soccer, there were no shortage of people who were, to put it mildly, skeptical about how realistic a plan that was.

The event billed as “The Unveil” happened at the team’s stadium in Fort Lauderdale. It comes one day after Messi, MLS and Inter Miami finalized his signing through the 2025 season.

Messi, a World Cup champion for Argentina and seven-time Ballon d’Or winner as the world’s best player in a given year, is joining a club that has the fewest points in MLS and is mired in an 11-match winless streak. Inter Miami opened the season with two wins and has gone 3-14-3 since. It has 12 MLS matches left this season, and is 12 points out of a playoff spot — so it’s going to take a ton of wins just to have a chance.

The club previously announced that Messi’s deal will be for 2 1/2 seasons and will pay him between $50 million and $60 million annually — putting the total contract value between $125 million and $150 million in cash alone. There are other factors, the value of which isn’t known.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.