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Messi repeats Pele's iconic celebration from the 1970 World Cup

  /  autty

There were many remarkable aspects to Lionel Messi's performance away at Sevilla on Saturday afternoon and one of them had to do with the way he celebrated the second of his three goals.

The Argentine ran to Ousmane Dembele and was help up by the Frenchman, a celebration that looks almost identical to Pele's embrace with Jairzinho after the Brazilian legend had scored the opener in the 1970 World Cup final in Mexico.

With a clenched fist in the air and the other arm around the teammate, these two celebrations are eerily similar.