Watch This Floppy-Haired Gamer Transform Into Leo Messi For FIFA '14 [THE BRIEF]

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A floppy-haired video gamer transforms into FC Barcelona soccer star Leo Messi in a new Wieden+Kennedy Amsterdam ad for FIFA '14 on Xbox. Featuring the tagline "It just got real," the ad shows a young man sitting on his couch playing Xbox when his skin begins to crack, beginning a rapid, fairly bizarre transformation into the world's greatest soccer player:

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