Returning to Saudi for a well-earned holiday just months after captaining Argentina’s national football team to a World Cup win, Lionel Messi explored Saudi Arabia’s capital, Riyadh, and its surroundings – this time with his family, wife Antonella Roccuzzo and sons Mateo and Ciro, in tow.
The international footballing hero and Paris Saint-Germain striker was greeted with a warm Saudi welcome, known as ‘Hafawa’, as they absorbed the region’s ancient cultural heritage, kicked back at Riyadh’s local hangouts and came face-to-face with extraordinary indigenous animal species.
