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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Sport
Daniel Harris

Lionel Messi, the iconic pink and black, and that Ronaldo rivalry

Lionel Messi getting a first taste of training in Fort Lauderdale.
Lionel Messi getting a first taste of training in Fort Lauderdale. Photograph: Cristóbal Herrera/EPA

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There are various notions of what, if anything, differentiates humans from other animals, one being the power of imagination. And, though animals haven’t yet abused that power to dream up horrors such as MK Dons, Pepsi Max mango and the Conservative party, they also haven’t devised inspired names for football clubs – Inter Miami, for example. For those wondering what makes it quite so special, the genius is that it parodies the name of another club, Internazionale, who are known by the unknowing as Inter Milan, but also because “Inter” sounds like “Into”, creating not just a pun but a double pun. There’s playing on the words … and then there’s dancing on them like they’re the soft, fleshy inside of Stephen Hughes’s right thigh.

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