A Japanese jeweler is selling a solid gold statue of Barcelona striker Lionel Messi’s left foot for $5.25 million. According to the LA Times, the 55-pound golden foot isso detailed you can see “blood vessels and swirls of skin on the bottom of the toes.”
Jeweler Ginza Tanaka created the statue to celebrate Messi’sunprecedented fourth consecutive FIFA Ballon d’Or award in January. Miniature versions of the Argentine’s foot will also go on sale to the regular public. According to the report, profitsfrom the sales will go to the player’s charity, the Leo Messi Foundation, to help victims of the earthquake and tsunami in Japan two years ago.