Several hundred fans gathered outside a restaurant where Lionel Messi was dining with his family on Monday night near Buenos Aires. The PSG star had to be escorted through the crowd as he left the establishment.
The return of Lionel Messi (35) to Argentina for the international break is already turning the riot. The PSG striker provoked, despite himself, a crowd movement in front of a restaurant in the city of Palermo (near Buenos Aires) where he had gone for dinner with the family. The news of his presence quickly spread and several hundred people then gathered in front of the establishment, which specializes in parilla (grilled rib steak), to sing the famous song taken up in tribute to the Argentine selection, Muchachos, before asking to the sevenfold Ballon d’Or to come to the balcony to greet them.
Messi leaves the restaurant under the cries and a swarm of smartphones
Messi didn’t respond to his insistent demands. But he realized the crazy atmosphere when he left the restaurant, accompanied by loud cries from the fans under a cloud of smartphones pointed in his direction. Escorted by his security services, he painfully returned to his car before leaving the place.
This craze is a glimpse of the madness that will seize the Monumental stadium on Friday where the Argentinian world champions, crowned in the final once morest France three months ago (3-3, 4 tab 2), will be celebrated in front of a audience on fire. The Argentine Federation recently indicated that it had received more than a million and a half requests for tickets to attend the friendly match once morest Panama which will be the scene of this tribute.
Messi offers himself an enchanted parenthesis at the heart of gloomy news with PSG. He has been surrounded by criticism since the Parisian elimination in the knockout stages of the Champions League once morest Bayern Munich. Another question agitates its topicality: its future. The Argentine star, under contract with PSG until the end of the season, is still discussing with the Parisian leaders an extension of an additional year. If an agreement in principle has existed for several months, nothing has yet been recorded. A question that he will leave open for the time of this international truce where he will be celebrated as a hero venerated by an entire people.
