Reddit users buy Messi for Admira Wacker

After you Saved GameStop from greedy hedge funds, the Reddit users move on to the next heroic deed: They support the bottom line FC Flyeralarm Admira. With the combined forces of the community, it was possible to collect enough money to lure Lionel Messi from dreary Barcelona to sunny Mödling.

MARIA ENZERSDORF – “Down with the billionaire bosses”, blows a Reddit user to the attack. “Let’s give football back into the hands of the amateur and hobby footballers of the Austrian Bundesliga!”

Thousands of users agree. Then everything goes very quickly: 90 million euros are collected, a few hours later Lionel Messi arrives in the southern part of the city and signs a three-year contract with FC Flyeralarm Admira.

Euphoric greeting

For the first time, the world footballer enters the “lawn” (currently not playable due to potato sowing for next year’s harvest) of the legendary Maria Enzersdorfer BSFZ football arena & shoe designer outlet center, the Camp Nou of the southern city, the place where dreams and hopes get the red card.

The Admira board is enthusiastic and applauds when the star arrives. “Arrividerci Leonhard Messi” is written with mayonnaise on a sausage platter with which Messi is greeted.

“Dear Lenny, we even have a surprise for you.” President Philip Thonhauser unveils a Messi statue made of extra sausage, donated by the Mödling family butcher’s shop Kurt Totschlag und Söhne. Messi smiles kindly.

Further faults threaten

The power of the Reddit community could soon cause further upheavals in domestic football. “Next stop – RED BULL !! – we have to destroy them from the inside out, ”writes one user. To smash Didi Mateschitz’s club, they are currently collecting 12 euros. “With that we buy Stefan Maierhofer for the Salzburg offensive, relegation is then only a matter of time.”

Frenzy of happiness

In Mödling, in any case, you can enjoy flying high. Messi sneaks to the press conference. “Hola Mödling,” he says. “I have always loved helping the weakest in society: I made the paralyzed walk, got orphans off the streets and saved my own taxes from the financial sector. But to save Admira from relegation, that will be my most difficult charity project. If we don’t accidentally pass at least one pass to the opponent this season, it will be worth it. “

It’s a story that reminds watchers of David versus Goliath. “But that’s not entirely true,” explains historian Harald Feil. “David had at least the theoretical chance of hitting something with his slingshot that is more than two meters away.”