Global Courant
The match that the national team plays against Australia next Thursday in Beijing generated extreme fervor in Asian lands.
Over the weekend, some 20,000 Chinese went to wait for Lionel Messi and the Argentine National Team at the Beijing airport. It seemed crazy. But, far from going down, the Chinese tide is growing and on Tuesday some five million Asians were disappointed on social networks. It is that, the local fans expected a long interview of Lionel Messi with the Titán program. However, the Argentine star barely launched a couple of sentences where he questioned his participation in the next World Cup and spoke briefly about the Champions League final. Little meat for beasts. But tomorrow they will have their revenge: a stream is announced “between 6 PM and 9 PM” where Leo will be able to elaborate a little more.
The certain thing is that the tour of the Argentina Selection by China became a true madness. Since the landing of the Scaloneta last Sunday, the streets of Beijing have been overflowing at all times, both day and night. “They are going to kill us, boludo”, Lionel Scaloni himself was heard worried. Not even the Rolling Stones could do that much.
Liu Yuhang ran to the National Team bus with his bicycle and took a photo with Messi. Photo: AFP
The schedule does not seem to matter to the Chinese as long as they get some minimal contact with the players and to be able to see Leo. This was demonstrated tonight in Beijing – around 10:30 in the morning in our country – when the world champion squad returned to the hotel after training and the security fences were overwhelmed. It was more than 10:30 p.m. in Asia, but the shouting was deafening in search of an Argentine greeting from the Argentine team.
Every day of training we seek to carry out a procedure as stealthy as possible in order to get to the property as quickly as possible. A video starring Lionel Scaloni himself, where they have to change the training plan in front of the crowd present at the hotel door, describes the situation that his team has to live at all times.