Americans’ Surprising Lack of Knowledge about Lionel Messi Sparks Controversy

2023-07-25 05:55:28

A tiktoker from Argentina who lives in the United States took advantage of the rage for Lionel Messi on North American soil to record a video with a fairly simple objective: to find out if the locals know ‘the flea’; however, she ended up getting a tremendous surprise because the answers she got from her left her confused.

When Mariana, identified on TikTok as @mariana.kida, asked a young woman if she knew Messi, she said “no” and confessed that she knew nothing regarding soccer. Although the Latina tried to explain that he is a well-known player, the American still mightn’t recognize him.

After that, he approached a couple and asked them the same question. They denied knowing the Argentine idol and even confused him with an Argentine tennis player named Alberto Mancini.

Later, the tiktoker spoke with a teenager, but he did not know how to respond either. Finally, she spoke with a subject and the answer, although it was not very different from the previous ones, outraged Argentina because the interviewee said that the sport that Messi practices “is not real football.”

Video of a young Argentine who asked Americans if they knew Lionel Messi

Mariana’s video went viral with more than a million views and, as expected, generated all kinds of reactions among users.

“What annoyance it gives me that they call it Soccer”; “That’s why Messi was so calm in the supermarket”; “And… that’s why Messi is going to the USA, they won’t bother him there as much as in Europe or in Arabia”; “This is like the ‘Good ending’ for Messi. Being able to go out to dinner, to the supermarket with his family and nobody asks him for autographs or hugs every 30 seconds ”; “How can they not meet Messi?” the people wrote.

When will Lionel Messi play once more at Inter Miami?

Lionel Messi will return to the DRV PNK Stadium in the city of Fort Lauderdale on Tuesday, July 25, 2023 at 8:30 p.m. The rival will be Atlanta United, for matchday 2 of South Zone 3 of the Leagues Cup.

It should be added that Inter Miami CF made official the announcement of the signing of its Franchise Player, who signed until the end of 2025. On the other hand, it is known that the Argentine star will earn between US$50 and US$60 million a year, according to the club’s co-owner, Jorge Mas, in an interview with the Spanish newspaper El País.

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