Lionel Messi, Inter Miami forward, published a video on social media this Monday to explain that he did not play his team’s preseason friendly in Hong Kong due to physical problems and regretted that “false things” were said about the alleged reasons for his absence. .
“Hello everyone. I have read and heard many things that were said after what happened in the Hong Kong match, that is why I preferred to make this video and give the explanation that it really is and not have to read false things. Like everyone “You know, I always want to play and I want to enter every game. I heard that I haven’t wanted to play because of political issues and many other things that have nothing to do with it,” Messi said in a video published on the social network ‘Weibo’.
“If it had been like that, I would not have traveled to Japan or gone as many times as I went to China on different occasions. Since I started my career, I had a very close, very nice relationship with China, I have done many things with China, both interviews and games. , events and many games. I had to go with Barcelona, ??with the Argentine team,” he continued.
Messi explained that he noticed some physical discomfort in the abductor in the friendlies played in Arabia against Al Nassr and Al Hilal as part of Inter Miami’s international preseason tour.
“As I already said in the press conference I gave, I had an inflammation in my abductor and I couldn’t participate. In the first game in Arabia I felt it, in the second I tried to play and it got worse. I tried the day before in training to do an effort for all the people there, I did what I could,” he said.
“I was with all the boys there were and the truth is that I couldn’t play, because I felt discomfort and there was a risk of getting worse. The days went by, I felt a little better and that’s why I played in Japan. As always, I send him a lot of love to all the people of China, I have always had it,” concluded the Argentine. Messi will start the new MLS season this Wednesday with a home game against Real Salt Lake.
