Lionel Messi and other soccer stars are doing the ‘Toilet Paper Challenge’ while stuck at home

That’s one way to pass the time.

I honestly don’t understand why people are using toilet paper as soccer “balls” to juggle — yes, yes, I know that people are buying rolls by the dozens during social distancing, but I can’t figure out how this connection was made! — but here we are. Maybe it’s because it’s harder to juggle toilet paper than a soccer ball??

Among the many challenges we’ve seen while people stay at home during the Coronavirus pandemic — soap treadmills, shooting socks into cans, and whatever you call keeping an 18-pound medicine ball in the air using just your fists — there’s also the “Toilet Paper Challenge,” in which lots of folks including the legendary Lionel Messi (NBA star Luka Doncic gave it a shot) are juggling TP:

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As you can see in the video above, I gave it a shot and failed because I’m terrible at soccer (if it was the 10 volley tennis challenge, different story!).

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