‘Pessi’ as you might have guessed if you are a football fan, refers to Lionel Messi, the eight-time Ballon d’or winner, know the meaning of the memes and name
Currently, Messi is one of the most popular footballers worldwide, apart from presently being the best player alongside Cristiano Ronaldo. Chances are that even if you aren’t a football fan, you might have heard of his name.
Pessi Is Finished Meaning After Lionel Messi Memes Trend On Twitter
Lionel Messi l The Art of Penalties 🎨pic.twitter.com/K4sIIkLlS8
— Context Pessi (@ContextPessi_) July 1, 2022
Ernesto Valverde got sacked✅
Quique Setien got sacked✅
Ronald Koeman got sacked✅
Mauricio Pochettino got sacked✅All thanks to Ghost Pessi's bad performance.
Manager🤦♂️ sacker Pessi is now looking for a new victim.You never know who is next. pic.twitter.com/BY43Zk509k
— Lord Pessi : The Gayest Bottler Of All Time (@Bfm0028) July 5, 2022
Some football clubs and their weakness 😭 pic.twitter.com/WGOhzQMEZy
— Context Pessi (@ContextPessi_) July 4, 2022
Why then does this ‘Pessi’ community keep making fun of Messi by using his name and image? What exactly does ‘Pessi’ even mean? How did it even start as a joke? Let us try to answer these questions to grasp the situation better.
The origins of the word ‘Pessi’
‘Pessi’ is a clever combination of the words ‘penalty’ and “Messi“. For those who still don’t get it, the word ‘Pessi’ was initially created to troll Lionel Messi for all his missed penalties, especially back when he was at Barca. Messi had a hard point in his career when he missed a string of important spot-kicks, letting his fans down.
The joke started out as a reply to a long-standing rivalry between the two fan bases of Barcelona and Real Madrid. Barca fans frequently taunted Ronaldo and his fans by calling him ‘Penaldo’. This is a dig against the way he scores most of his goals, i.e. through penalty kicks as opposed to open play goals, which are a more standard display of goal scoring ability.
Pessi, the bald fraud
The pun usually comes along with a photo-shopped image of a ‘bald’ Messi. Soccer fans commonly criticise players or managers who are overrated or have been apparently ‘exposed’ to being abysmal at their respective jobs. The term used during this type of criticism is “bald fraud”—someone who makes a living in their profession without actually being good at it or doing anything worth the paycheck.
Despite all this, the joke has come a long way away from its original intended meaning. So much so that Messi and his so-called rival, Ronaldo, don’t even play for both these rival teams anymore.
Nowadays, the users use the ‘Pessi’ trolls in less abusive way towards Messi. It has become more of a way of life for the Pessi community on Twitter, most of whom are surprisingly from France. In fact, they often engage in ‘digital raids‘ and attack celebrities’ accounts by spamming them with ‘Pessi‘ tweets for a good cause.
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