As one of the most famous faces in world sport, Barcelona superstar Lionel Messi is getting his own theme park in China.

The theme park in Nanjing is due to open its door to the public in 2019. There will be 20 attractions on offer, spread out over 500.000 square feet of indoor space and 130.000 square feet of outdoor play.

Besides virtual reality technology, it will offer football training clinics, entertaining activities and displays showing the Argentine's career highlights.

Messi has been in China to launch the park during a four-day visit to the country.

"I hope to provide them the experience they never had before and to inspire them to pick up the sport early on. Hopefully, they will feel that I am around when visiting the park," he said.

The backers of the park claim it will offer: "The most cutting-edge technology, enabling visitors to immerse themselves in all things Messi by combining the latest-generation attractions with the very best advances in content and multimedia attractions.”

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