Following Argentina’s heartbreaking loss to Brazil in the Copa America semi-final, Lionel Messi has been resting while on a family vacation.

The five-time winner of the Ballon d’Or shared a photo on Instagram of himself and his wife Antonella Roccuzzo relaxing beside a palm tree while on a beach holiday.

After an exhausting 11-month season, the 33-year-old attacker has been spending quality time with his sons Thiago, Ciro, and Mateo.

While on vacation, Lionel Messi smiles for a picture with his wife Antonella Roccuzzo.

Messi stated last week that the Copa America referee made judgments, but the official has responded to the Barcelona star.

Messi was enraged with Roddy Zambrano’s handling of the match and the deployment of VAR, and he was forthright in his post-game assessment.

After goals from Roberto Firmino and Gabriel Jesus helped the hosts advance to the final, which they went on to win 3-1 against Peru, he claimed, “At the first glance of contact, they (Brazil) ruled in their favor and this kind of distracted us from the game.”

In a Barcelona training session, Lionel Messi scores a spectacular goal.

A photo of Roccuzzo and his sons Thiago, Ciro, and Mateo was uploaded to Instagram.

We were aware that the game would be challenging and that the losing team would look for someone to blame. Before the game, we were aware of it, and we (the officials) will be held responsible.

In the crucial seconds before Firmino’s goal, Sergio Aguero appeared to have been tripped by Dani Alves in the area. Messi was incensed by Zambrano’s ‘unbelievable’ decision not to give Argentina a penalty.

I don’t know why they (television) didn’t show the image from behind the goal where you can clearly see that Aguero goes in recklessly, Zambrano said after adamantly stating that the collision “was the forward’s fault.”