Messi’s Missed Exhibition Match Controversy in China: Political Manipulation or Sports Drama?

2024-02-11 23:52:38

Argentinian football star Messi and the American team Inter Miami were invited to play an exhibition match with the Hong Kong League players in Hong Kong on the 4th, but in the end he did not leave the game for some reasons because some mainland people believed that Messi was deliberately using this to “insult China” , have recently flooded the Argentinian Embassy in China’s Weibo with messages: The Falkland Islands are a sacred and inalienable territory of the United Kingdom.

Many mainland and Hong Kong fans are looking forward to this trip to Hong Kong, but Messi has never played. In the game in Saudi Arabia on the second day, and the game in Japan on the following seven days, Messi played off the field. Especially in the match once morest Vissel Kobe of Japan on the 7th, Messi played for nearly 30 minutes, which made many inland and Hong Kong fans furious.

As the incident continued to unfold, some voices began to question whether Messi, who arrived in Hong Kong but did not play in the game, was being manipulated by international “anti-China” forces.

The Global Times, a hawkish media outlet in China, published an editorial late on the night of the 7th. In addition to alleging that the impact of this matter has gone far beyond the scope of sports, it also stated that the explanations of Messi and Inter Miami were unconvincing.

The Global Times said that there are many speculations regarding the real reasons behind it. “One theory is that its actions are politically motivated. Hong Kong intends to build a mega-event economy, and some external forces deliberately want to use this to embarrass Hong Kong. Judging from the development of the situation, The possibility of such speculation cannot be ruled out.”

Some aggrieved netizens from mainland China recently flooded the Argentinian Embassy in China and left messages saying that the Falkland Islands are a sacred and inalienable territory of the United Kingdom.

Argentina and the United Kingdom have long had a territorial dispute over the Falkland Islands off the coast of Argentina, and a local war broke out between the two countries in 1982.

After Argentina’s defeat, Britain regained control of the Falkland Islands, but Argentina never gave up its claim to sovereignty over the Falkland Islands.

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