The news dispersed in the media that the Central Bank of Argentina proposed issuing a banknote with the image of the captain of the National Football team of Lionel Messi after the victory of his team at the World Cup - 2022. We checked whether there was such an initiative in reality.
Information about an unusual for a living and still quite young man, the proposal of the Argentine Central Bank appeared in many sports and news editions (Sportbox.ru, "Championship.ru","RBC Sports","Komsomolskaya Truth" Lenta.ru, "Vedomosti"). The news scattered on social networks: "VKontakte" (Champions Cup - 96,000 views, Official 433 - 34,000), Telegram ("ABC of money | Finance" - 23,000, Mur - 29,000), Facebook, Instagram, Twitter.
On December 18, 2022, the Argentina team won the World Cup in Qatar. In the final match against previous champions - the French - Messi scored two goals, and was also recognized as the best player of the tournament. In order to perpetuate the achievement of the team at the World Cup 2022, the Central Bank of the Argentinean Republic (TsBAR) allegedly proposed to place the image of Messi on a banknote of 1000 Argentine pesos (approximately 400 rubles). Moreover, some users of social networks, Discussing The proposal of the TsBAR, they called this initiative to overcome and were indignant at why the choice fell precisely on Messi (and not, for example, for one of the heroes of the World Cup-2022, the Argentine midfielder Angel Di Maria).
It is worth noting that the Central Bank is already released Collectible coins in 1977-1978, when Argentina hosted the World Cup - 1978, which also won. Since 2006 TsBAR stably released Silver coins in honor of every World Cup: in 2006 year in Germany, in 2010 in South Africa, c 2014 In Brazil, c 2018 in Russia and in 2022 In Qatar.
Unlike collection coins, a banknote with a portrait of Messi supposedly was supposed to enter not only in a collection of numismatists, but also in regular money circulation. Its design was also attached to the publications about the new banknote: the blue-yellow bill with a face value of 1000 pesos, on which Lionel Messi’s face and the symbol of the sun from the Argentinean flag are closely depicted. On the reverse side of the bill supposedly a photo of the national team on the pedestal and the name of the coach Lionel Skaloni, who brought the team to victories at the America Cup, in the match, in the match FinalissaAndMa-2022 And at the World Cup 2022 in Qatar.
Nevertheless, it turned out that Tsbar did not plan to issue banknotes with a portrait of the captain of the football team. In the commentary to the publication Bloomberg Línea The Central Bank of Argentina said that such an idea was not even considered there. In the Mint of Argentina, the call of journalists was perceived with humor, also confirming that they had not heard anything about such an initiative.
For the first time, information about the banknote with a portrait of Messi appeared on December 19 in the Mexican Business Gazet El Financiero. The publication wrote that even before the final match, the leadership of the Argentine Central Bank discussed options for noting a possible victory and a new world title. However, EL Financiero founded its publication on the inaccurate statement of Bloomberg journalist Ignacio Olivery Dolya. December 15, Dol was present at a meeting of the management of the Central Bank of Argentina, where, according to his words, discussed the banknote with the person of Messi. Only later Dol ClarifiedThat the idea was joking and seriously no one discussed it. By the way, El Financiero also said at the end of the article that information about the banknote with Messi was a joke of one of the Central Bank employees. But, apparently, this detail was missed by the rest of the media and users of social networks who took the news seriously. Perhaps they misled them and also illustration To the article El Financiero: Banknot of 1000 pesos, where instead red -haired stovenik - The National Bird of Argentina - a portrait of Messi is inserted using a graphic editor, while nowhere it was not indicated that the image is not present.
Three days later, December 21, on Twitter Sportbible Another option appeared design Banknotes (also without specifying the use of a graphic editor), which was even more widely dispersed on the Internet along with false news.
Thus, incorrect information about the banknote with a portrait of Messi was the result of inaccuracies in the statements of journalists and at the same time inattention of readers. As a result, the news spread through the media and social networks without a reservation, that initially the offer was a joke and no one was seriously going to place the portrait of Messi on the banknote.
Image on the cover: Twitter
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