Barcelona star Lionel Messi also featured in the election which saw Donald Trump become the new president of the United States.

While Trump got the better of Hillary Clinton, there were also, as is usual in elections across the world, a few votes which verged away from the norm.

And according to @messi10stats, Messi even received a vote. Someone thought it would be a batter option to vote for the Argentine than for any of the options available to them. Or they at least thought it would be funny.

As well the vote for Messi, there have been a number of memes featuring Trump and Clinton as football players, with Messi regularly featuring in them as well: