A poster of Lionel Messi crying blood behind bars appeared on the ISIS propaganda channels. This chilling message to football fans across the world was released by the Islamic State ahead of the World Cup.
Posted by terror group the Wafa Media Foundation, the image aims at instilling fear among fans ahead of next year's world cup in Russia.
"You are fighting a state that does not have failure in it's dictionary," the message on the poster read.
This is the second direct threat that the ISIS has made to football fans ahead of the world cup.
Another showed the Russia 2018 logo with an armed jihadi posing beside it and the words "Wait For Us" in Arabic.
Authorities are treating the threats to the football festival next summer seriously, as parts of Russia are rife with ISIS fanatics.
Another propaganda poster shows an armed fighter looking over Moscow's Luzhniki Stadium where the World Cup final will be played on 15 July 2018.
"O enemies of Allah in Russia, I swear that the fire of the mujahideen will burn them, just wait," the poster read.
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