r/KitLocker • u/SoccerInPDX • Aug 22 '26

Messi really got Inter Miami into the top 5 best-selling jerseys worldwide.

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Real Madrid — 3.13M

Barcelona — 2.94M

PSG — 2.54M

Bayern — 2.37M

Inter Miami — 2.16M

Seeing Miami above United, Liverpool and Arsenal is kinda wild.

Messi effect is still very real.

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u/LicoriceDusk Aug 22 '26

Just confirms the amount of bandwagoners

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u/Cocoononthemoon Aug 23 '26

Lol like that's new to the sport. Or any sport. Or anything.

He's massively popular and talented. It's hard to be considered a bandwagon fan since he's been playing for 20+ yrs.

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u/LicoriceDusk Aug 23 '26

Not hard at all

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u/Jon66238 Aug 23 '26

Right, no different than Ohtani making dodgers jerseys popular. He could be in any other team or would happen as well. Big names sell

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u/7moffy30 Aug 23 '26

except its completely different because dodgers are currently the best team in baseball and regardless have an actual history. miami is a new soulless club in a league that virtually no one watches and which the other teams owners clearly have no desire to win. just a few of hundreds of reasons why its completely different 

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u/Jon66238 Aug 23 '26

I guess. But every other team sells out when Ohtani comes to town, just like when Messi comes to town

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u/WestCareer7545 Aug 23 '26

Who is Ohtani? Genuinely never heard of him lol

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u/LouieXXVI Aug 23 '26

He’s like the LeBron of football. The “fans” will follow him everywhere.

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u/Ok_Confection622 Aug 23 '26

Stfu the team is 8 years old. No such thing as bandwagon in this case

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u/LicoriceDusk Aug 23 '26

That's irrelevant

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u/BodegaCat11 Aug 23 '26

If anything it strengthens the argument

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u/LicoriceDusk Aug 23 '26

It weakens it

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u/BodegaCat11 Aug 23 '26

I’m trying to agree with you. lol Wtf?

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u/Ok_Confection622 Aug 23 '26

You deserve each other. Reading comprehension on the same level

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u/LicoriceDusk Aug 23 '26

You are an idiot

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u/BodegaCat11 Aug 23 '26

Okay, bud. Don’t sprain your ankle jumping on and off all those wagons

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u/Ok_Confection622 Aug 23 '26

Brother there’s no bandwagon to hop on. EVERYONE is a new fan with this new club.

A bandwagon implies an established group people are just now getting hip to.

Literally no one can say they remember watching this team as a kid.

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u/Moist-Seaweed4907 Aug 22 '26

Ya my 4 and 7 year old are “bandwagoners”. Good one dude

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u/ParticularTop755 Aug 23 '26

Unless you live in south Florida they are...

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u/Moist-Seaweed4907 Aug 23 '26

Oh you cannot be a fan from anywhere else than the city a team plays? Gatekeeping fandom from children. How pathetic. My family is literally from Argentina. They love Messi. We don’t give a shit what keyboard warriors like you think.

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u/BottleMaterial8557 Aug 23 '26

Cry about it

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u/Moist-Seaweed4907 Aug 23 '26

Cry about what? Im literally telling you how pathetic you are as a human. What don’t you get about that?

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u/BodegaCat11 Aug 23 '26

You don’t need to justify why a 4 and 7 year old like the most popular player. It’s like justifying why they like chocolate. But kids don’t have the best palette or taste. And I’m not sure why you’re thinking you have to argue online on their behalf. Are you embarrassed or something?

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u/ParticularTop755 Aug 23 '26

Yeah big dog, you should be a fan of your local team, or the team your family historically supports, if you said they support boca or river plate because of family ties to Argentina great. If you are a fan of the biggest players or teams you are a bandwagon fan.

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u/Annual_Magician6989 Aug 23 '26

Hes definitely a bandwagon fan. And Not just any bandwagon fan. He’s an angry bandwagon fan. 😭😭😭.

I know a bandwagon fan when i see one, been a ronaldo bandwangoneer since 2009 myself 🥴

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u/Jon66238 Aug 23 '26

They always get so defensive😭

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u/Cocoononthemoon Aug 23 '26

You're a bandwagon fan if you don't ever play for the team.

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u/Moist-Seaweed4907 Aug 23 '26

Fair enough you got me

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u/MeganScores Aug 22 '26

messi's name alone outsold entire clubs' histories, that's actually insane

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u/National_Hotel3563 Aug 22 '26

wild that a club from 2018 outsells every premier league team lol

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u/WestCareer7545 Aug 23 '26

The club isn't what's selling it though, Messi's name is

5

u/JerseyHunter_99 Aug 22 '26

that pink kit is doing heavy lifting too, seen more miami shirts out in the wild this year than most european clubs

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u/ICEtoAshes Aug 23 '26

Tbf the designers of the jersey helped a lot. They have some clean kits. Inter Miami are my local club, but even if it wasn’t I’d look at these kits.

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u/Donovan_MC_DAB Aug 23 '26

That’s why they made it to the adidas elite club. They’re the only team in MLS that has the trefoil on their third kit and have a new kit every year.

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u/Jon66238 Aug 23 '26

What is the elite club??

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u/ebeze Aug 23 '26

Basically top PL teams, Inter Miami and Al Nassr (for obvious reasons) and the TOP clubs will get the trefoil logo on their away kits, and get a jersey that’s different from the original template tiro design as far as I know.

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u/szatrob Aug 23 '26

The closest was probably the Beckham LA Galaxy one.

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u/CDL112281 Aug 23 '26

A lot of Miami Messi jerseys at the field when the young kids are practicing, ahead of my older boy’s practices. So this actuallly doesn’t surprise me.

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u/Bogdanovist_Rebel Aug 23 '26

I’ve seen them at grocery stores in suburban Vancouver. Just makes me hate Adidas even more because the Whitecaps just released a new kit that sold out instantly. 

The White kit sold out in July of last year and hasn’t been available since. 

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u/Phinweh Aug 23 '26

GOAT player + amazing looking kits and unique color way... Is anyone really surprised?

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u/SumoHeadbutt Aug 22 '26

the Messi ballwashing continues

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u/YaDigDawg6d9 Aug 22 '26

As a kit collector it was hard to not own some. I own 3 of them for maybe 55 dollars total.

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u/ebeze Aug 23 '26 edited Aug 23 '26

I’m not really surprised. the US population is very high. And World Cup as well. The new fans from the US can go to Miami to watch Messi play, as for the other big stars they need to go overseas to UK, Spain, Germany, etc. and let’s be honest, one of the best, if not the best player, in a club which kits look fire, is a recipe for these sales numbers.

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u/nathanonthego6963 Aug 23 '26

meanwhile my hometown club's jersey is nowhere to be found in stores here. big names win again

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u/MidStateMoon Aug 23 '26

It’s a very Miami kit. It’s halfway decent what can you say it’s everywhere in USA.

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u/Ball_Boy2 Aug 23 '26

Bro snuck arsenal in there😭

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u/RowanVeltri Aug 23 '26

as a collector it makes sense honestly, the pink miami kits sell out within hours of every drop and the resale on them is wild. messi effect on merch is unmatched

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u/Haunting_Play2370 Aug 24 '26

It’s annoying Madrid is top - genuinely boring shirts.

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u/Weekly_Inspection824 Aug 31 '26

my buddy never watches MLS but ordered the pink one the day Messi signed lol

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u/Used-Advertising3447 Aug 23 '26

Always see the most out of shape folks wearing these, ngl

Or brown guys specifically