The planned friendly between Argentina’s national team and Nigeria’s Super Eagles is canceled.
This is due to the negative reaction that followed Lionel Messi’s decision to skip his team Inter Miami’s Hong Kong match.
Messi was the primary attraction for an exhibition match between Inter Miami and a Hong Kong XI, but thousands of fans were left fuming and disappointed when the Argentina captain did not play a minute of the game last week.
Messi’s decision not to play for Inter Miami in Hong Kong on Sunday infuriated many supporters. Argentina was supposed to play Nigeria in the Chinese city of Hangzhou in March before taking on Cote d’Ivoire in Beijing.
The blowback grew with Hangzhou sports authorities announcing that the friendly would no longer take place.
In a statement, Hangzhou authorities, said: “As a commercial event, a company and the Argentinian soccer team negotiated that the team would play a friendly match in March this year in the city of Hangzhou.”
“In view of the current well-known reasons, according to the competent authorities, conditions to hold the friendly match are not mature, therefore (we) have decided to cancel it.” [CONTINUE READING HERE]
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