Atlas' Messi-based Instagram joke backfires as rival fans roast the long-suffering Mexican club

Lionel Messi followed Atlas on Twitter on Thursday but don't expect to see Messi in Liga MX anytime soon. Long-suffering fans of Liga MX club Atlas have not seen their team win a first-division title since 1951, but the Guadalajara institution achieved something on Thursday that no other Mexican club can boast: Lionel Messi followed them on Instagram. Big day for @atlasfc. The Mexican club officially welcomed Lionel Messi to the "red-and-black family."(Messi followed the club on Instagram) #ligamxeng pic.twitter.com/7sULNbptYR— Tom Marshall (@mexicoworldcup) January 18, 2019 And they made the most of being one of the 219 accounts that Messi follows. Los Rojinegros posted an Instagram story "welcoming" Messi to the "red-and-black" family, before adding another explaining that he wasn't actually joining the struggling club,...

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