Messi again apologized to the Hong Kong crowd for not being able to play in the friendly

Lionel Messi spoke again about his absence from Inter Miami’s friendly match against a local team from Hong Kong, during the U.S. team’s tour of Asia. In a video, the Argentine captain apologized to the fans for not being able to play and clarified the reasons for his foul. As everyone knows, I always want to play and be in every game. I heard that he didn’t want to play because of political issues and a lot of things that have nothing to do with it. If that had been the case, I wouldn’t have traveled to Japan or gone as many times as I went to China on different occasions,” he began by explaining. He then explained that he did not play due to a muscle injury. “As I said at the press conference, I had an inflammation in my adductor and I couldn’t participate. The first match I played in Arabia I felt it, in the second one I tried to play for a while and it was worse. I tried to train and make an effort the day before for all the people there. I actually did what I could and was in the clinic with all the guys there. But the truth is that I couldn’t play because I felt discomfort and I had the risk of getting worse,” he said. Finally, Messi said that as the days went by he felt a “little better”, so he played a few minutes in Japan, as “I needed to play and get into a rhythm again”. “I think I had already said it, but I thought it was important to repeat it again after all that is being talked about. I send a lot of love to all the people of China and I hope we can see each other soon,” he said.

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