Lionel Messi is a Soccer player not a Football player
Football – A sport played by kicking a spherical object, a.k.a a ball, with your foot. Hence the name football.
American Football – A sport played by throwing an oval object, with your hands.
And before some pedant begins harking on about Soccer being called such by the English, or any other of the inhabitants of this planet who have the good sense to recognize a beautiful game when they see one (this excludes those of the American persuasion), the name soccer comes from Association Football, meaning the original, and true name of the beautiful game is, and always has been, football.
And if anyone wishes to persist in erroneously referring to the less exciting version of rugby with the moniker ‘Football’, please preface it with the words ‘American’, allowing all of us not of that persuasion to recognize the poster’s nationality, give them a wide berth and allow them back to discussing their far inferior form of ‘sport’.