BUENOS AIRES, Argentina – Leo Messi made his acting debut in an Argentine streaming series, “Los protectores,” in which he plays himself in front of a trio of soccer player representatives.
This participation occurs in the second season of the comedy of the “Star Original Productions” label, starring the Argentines Adrián Suar and Gustavo Bermúdez, and the Colombian Andrés Parra, who put themselves in the shoes of three soccer players’ agents.
Messi participates in a fun five-minute scene, in which he meets the three representatives to talk about a project to support young people who play for different clubs in Europe, and the situation gets out of hand due to requests for photos and videos and the proposal of a business that gives rise to an intense exchange of glances.
The scene finally lightens up with a toast between Messi and the representatives in the seven-episode series that began airing last Sunday on the Star+ streaming service.
Recorded in different locations in Buenos Aires and Paris, the new season offers entertaining entanglements around the adventures of its three protagonists and reveals the relationships of power and competition, typical of the world of football representation.
The second season begins a year after the formation of “Los protectores SA”, when its three partners are enjoying having managed to position the company as one of the most important football representation companies in Latin America and Europe, and unexpectedly suffer the loss of their portfolio of players, so they will do the impossible to recover what belongs to them.
The new installment was written by Marcos Carnevale, directed by Jorge Nisco and directed by Polka, and takes up the story of the charismatic trio of footballer representatives made up of Mago (Suar), Reynaldo (Parra) and Conde (Bermúdez), together with great guests and new characters incarnated by Martín Seefeld, Jorgelina Aruzzi, Gastón Soffritti and Karina Mazzocco.
Messi and Suar, Polka’s artistic director, have known each other since 2015 and caused a stir last March when they went to dinner at a grill in Buenos Aires after the Albiceleste won the 2022 World Cup in Qatar, for which the star had to be escorted by the police to leave the restaurant among the crowd of fans.
