Credits

Every frame and loop on this site comes from the Messi film. These credits are the same ones the film uses. Where a frame carried a corner label, it has been cropped off and the same text is shown beside the image.

All frames and loops are also colour graded for this site, and the opening image on the home page is cut out from its background. Frames from CC BY-SA photographs stay under the same licence, including these adaptations. The licences cover copyright only: they do not clear a person’s image rights or the trade marks on kits.

AI-generated illustrations made with Google Gemini 3 Pro Image and Google Veo 3.1 for Talisman. They are not footage or photographs of real events or people. Narration in the film is a synthetic voice (Google Gemini TTS).

Images and video

• an old, worn football at rest against a kerb on an empty street at low sunAI-generated video (Google Veo 3.1), made for Talisman. Not real footage.
• A two-storey house with shutters and an iron balcony under a hard blue sky, in the Rosario neighbourhood where Messi grew upPhoto: TitiNicola, CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0), via Wikimedia Commons, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Casa_y_barrio_de_la_infancia_de_Lionel_Messi_-_Rosario_(Santa_Fe)_03.jpg. Adapted: cropped; shared under the same licence.
• a man and a small boy, seen from behind, waiting on orange chairs in a pale green clinic corridorAI-generated illustration (Google Gemini 3 Pro Image), made for Talisman. Not a real photograph.
• Iron gate and painted post with a hand-painted 10, in the Rosario neighbourhood where Messi grew upPhoto: TitiNicola, CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0), via Wikimedia Commons, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Casa_y_barrio_de_la_infancia_de_Lionel_Messi_-_Rosario_(Santa_Fe)_02.jpg. Adapted: cropped; shared under the same licence.
• a handwritten paper napkin, pen and coffee cups on a restaurant table, by a window at duskAI-generated illustration (Google Gemini 3 Pro Image), made for Talisman. Not a real photograph.
• an athletics stadium at night from high above, floodlights in haze and a city behindAI-generated illustration (Google Gemini 3 Pro Image), made for Talisman. Not a real photograph.
• a packed stadium at dusk, with long shadows on the pitch and pale blue and white flags in the far standAI-generated illustration (Google Gemini 3 Pro Image), made for Talisman. Not a real photograph.
• figures silhouetted walking towards a glowing gold-roofed stadium among palm trees, under a dark blue sky with a crescent moonAI-generated video (Google Veo 3.1), made for Talisman. Not real footage.
• figures in evening dress, seen from behind, in a dark theatre with gold curtains and an empty lecternAI-generated illustration (Google Gemini 3 Pro Image), made for Talisman. Not a real photograph.
• Messi in Barcelona colours chasing alongside a Juventus player with EVRA 33 on his shirt, on open greenPhoto: Biser Todorov, CC BY 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0), via Wikimedia Commons, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Moment_of_the_Champions_League_final_FC_Barcelona_-_Juventus_2015.jpg. Adapted: cropped, crests and logos blurred.
• a lone player in pale blue and white stripes walking towards a distant goal and a huddled team, on a blue-lit pitch at nightAI-generated illustration (Google Gemini 3 Pro Image), made for Talisman. Not a real photograph.
• a pale blue and white striped shirt on a hook in an empty wood-panelled dressing roomAI-generated illustration (Google Gemini 3 Pro Image), made for Talisman. Not a real photograph.
• Messi seen from behind in a Barcelona shirt with a yellow 10, stands and a linesman aheadPhoto: Hugo Pérez Marsol, CC BY 2.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), via Wikimedia Commons, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bar%C3%A7a_6_-_PSG_1;_Dimecres_8_de_mar%C3%A7_de_2017_-_33299590596.jpg. Adapted: cropped, crests and logos blurred.
• a worn suitcase, boots and packing boxes in a room with slatted sun on the floorAI-generated video (Google Veo 3.1), made for Talisman. Not real footage.
• Aerial view of Lusail Stadium, Qatar, in daylight haze: a gold bowl in flat land, with towers on the horizonPhoto: Djawed_vlog, CC BY 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0), via Wikimedia Commons, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Aerial_view_of_Lusail_Stadium_during_the_daytime.png. Adapted: cropped.
• a huge street crowd from above at night, red flares and smoke between apartment blocksAI-generated illustration (Google Gemini 3 Pro Image), made for Talisman. Not a real photograph.
• The Miami skyline at night across dark water, with coloured reflectionsPhoto: Photograph by Don Ramey Logan, CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), via Wikimedia Commons, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Miami_night_skyline_by_Don_Ramey_Logan.jpg. Adapted: cropped.
• Messi seated on the grass, seen from behind and turning his head, in Argentina's 10 shirt, against plain greenPhoto: Bryan Berlin / WikiPortraits, CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0), via Wikimedia Commons, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lionel_Messi_Argentina_v_Egypt_7_July_2026-218.jpg. Adapted: cropped; shared under the same licence.
• Lautaro Martinez with his arm around Messi, both seen from behind in Argentina stripesPhoto: Bryan Berlin / WikiPortraits, CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0), via Wikimedia Commons, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lautaro_Martinez_Lionel_Messi_Argentina_v_Egypt_7_July_2026-291.jpg. Adapted: cropped, crests and logos blurred; shared under the same licence.
• The Rosario riverfront at night, with lights across the water under an orange sky and a broken fence in the foregroundPhoto: Norberto Kolus, CC BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0), via Wikimedia Commons, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Costa_De_Rosario_(248975823).jpeg. Adapted: cropped; shared under the same licence.
• a striped pale blue and white shirt and a folded armband on a bed in a sunlit room, with boots on the floorboardsAI-generated illustration (Google Gemini 3 Pro Image), made for Talisman. Not a real photograph.
• fireworks and white smoke above the dark rim of a stadiumAI-generated video (Google Veo 3.1), made for Talisman. Not real footage.
• The Monumento a la Bandera, Rosario, at dawn, with its reflecting pool and an orange sky over the ParanaPhoto: Scarabinol, CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0), via Wikimedia Commons, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Monumento_a_la_Bandera_al_amanecer.jpg. Adapted: cropped; shared under the same licence.
• small black figures walking across a sunlit pitch, a long stand shadow in the foregroundAI-generated video (Google Veo 3.1), made for Talisman. Not real footage.
• light shifting over a creased handwritten napkin on a wooden tableAI-generated video (Google Veo 3.1), made for Talisman. Not real footage.
• a white ball rolling left to right across mown grass, camera followingAI-generated video (Google Veo 3.1), made for Talisman. Not real footage.
• low tracking move along a white touchline in an empty stadiumAI-generated video (Google Veo 3.1), made for Talisman. Not real footage.
• gold and silver paper strips falling onto grass against a pink skyAI-generated video (Google Veo 3.1), made for Talisman. Not real footage.

Numbers

The figures shown on these pages are the film’s own, and the film cites their sources in its description.

Type

League Gothic and Schibsted Grotesk, both under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.