Argentinian star Messi became popular again not long ago. After being silent for nearly half a month, Messi released a video on domestic social media to clarify the incident of not appearing in Hong Kong, China. But the fans didn't buy his statement, and a low-level mistake by Messi's operation team also caused huge controversy!
Even if you don’t pay attention to football at all, I believe you have heard about it to some extent. At the beginning of this month, Messi started another trip to China with the Inter Miami team. However, during this trip to China, Messi refused to play in the game due to injury. Moreover, Messi chose to refuse all requests from the Hong Kong government to invite him to attend the awards ceremony and interact with fans. His willful behavior also ignited the anger of Chinese fans. Everyone spoke out online and offline to attack Messi. He also went from being the "King of Football" admired by everyone to being a street rat that everyone yelled at.
Finally, not long ago, Messi posted a video on his social media to clarify the incident. According to his own statement, Messi had actually felt unwell as early as when he was in Saudi Arabia. After traveling to Hong Kong, China, the injury did not improve. Messi believed that if he played in Hong Kong, his injury would be at risk, so he was forced to sit on the bench for the entire game.
In addition, Messi also said that he has always had special emotions in his heart for China. Because of his career, he has visited China many times, and every bit of his time here has left him with good memories. Messi also hopes to continue to come to China in the future to give back to the Chinese fans who support him!
However, in the full text of Messi's video, he did not apologize for refusing to appear. It can be seen that in Messi's heart, he does not think there is anything wrong with his behavior. In addition, this clarification video also contains a very amateurish translation error. What Messi said: "I felt unwell in the first game in Saudi Arabia. I tried to play for a while in the second game and felt that the situation got worse!" was incorrectly translated by the Chinese operations team as: " In the first friendly match in Saudi Arabia, I felt inflammation of the adductor muscle, so I was unable to participate in the match." You must know that in the first match in Saudi Arabia, Messi played nearly the entire game, and many fans were also worried about this. At one point, a siege was launched on Messi.
In addition, this clarification video released by Messi is still "Special to China". There is no trace of this video at all on his foreign social media, which shows that this is another trick devised by Messi's team to fool Chinese fans. operation.
Since Messi did not speak out and apologize immediately, his reputation in the country can no longer be reversed. The huge Chinese market has to say goodbye to Messi completely!
