The Parisians lived a very special Sunday.
After the new disappointment in the Champions League, and this elimination in the round of 16 against Real Madrid (1-0, 1-3), Mauricio Pochettino's players were copiously ardently whistled during a large part of the meeting.
Two players have been the favorite targets of the capital club's supporters, Neymar and Lionel Messi.
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Football really has no memory... It's a shame.
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While the first responded by sharing two Instagram stories, the Argentinian did not flinch.
But the whistles of the Park towards the sevenfold golden ball were very badly perceived by the whole of the football planet.
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Several football personalities castigate the attitude of the Parc des Princes
Luis Suarez, his former teammate at FC Barcelona, with whom he won the Champions League, sent him a message on social networks “
As always, football has no memory.
Always with you.
I love you
“, by posting a photo of the three former friends of the MSN.
Former FC Barcelona player from 2011 to 2014, the Spaniard who rubbed shoulders with the Pulga and Neymar supported Luis Suarez's words, posting on his twitter account "
Football really has no memory... It's a shame.
I am always with you brothers
”.
Before them, it was a very close friend of La Pulga who had also taken out the barbed wire.
Criticized by the French press following his missed penalty in the first leg against Real Madrid, Lionel Messi then received the support of his compatriot and great friend.
The latter was then carried away in a live on the Twitch platform by declaring “
What shit, this penalty from Leo.
In addition he played well against Real, he broke lines.
I'm not saying this because he's a friend, but because he was good.
He was active.
In France, magazines and newspapers killed him.
They are assholes
”.
The former Manchester City striker did not mince his words and also admitted to having refused an interview with a French media,
In France, too, Ligue 1 watchers felt disgust and outrage at the Park's treatment of Lionel Messi.
Johan Micoud, a former French international who became a consultant, declared on his twitter account: “
No but seriously how can you whistle Messi every time he touches the ball..?
We really hit rock bottom.. Only in France can we see this.. So sad!
We just don't deserve it... in my opinion he will leave this summer, and he will be right
.
The journalist Vincent Duluc also returned to these whistles against the sevenfold Golden Ball by directly attacking the Parisian supporters in the newspaper L'Equipe "
But is it his audience, really?
Since he's been away from Barcelona, the Argentinian has been playing away everywhere.
The Park is not his garden, it is an exile.
PSG supporters criticize him for being the same age as Karim Benzema and for having scored fewer goals in a Ligue 1 season (2) than the Madrid player in seventeen Champions League minutes (3).
They blame him for believing he would win them the Champions League, which he has done only once since 2011, in 2015. They blame him for no longer being what he was.
In England on Sunday, Gary Lineker struggled to recover from these images of Lionel Messi booed by the Park at each touch of the ball.
Here too and everywhere else.
We spent our time wondering if Messi was bigger than PSG, and, at the end of the season,
".
The foreign and Argentine press complains about the treatment reserved for “La Pulga”
On the side of the foreign press,
Marca
,
AS
or even
Mundo Deportivo
were all surprised by these whistles and spoke of "
malaise
" on the faces of Lionel Messi and Neymar.
Spanish journalist Qui Domenech meanwhile explained that the last winner of the Copa América had "
wanted to return to Barça
" and that "
this hypothesis should not be ruled out
" because Messi would be "
delighted
to return to Barcelona
" according to his statements in the program El Chiringuito, very famous in Spain.
In England, Gary Lineker, a former Leicester star turned consultant, was disgusted by the whistles of the capital club's supporters against one of the best players in football history.
On his twitter account, the former FC Barcelona player posted a video of the whistles with the simple caption, an emoji vomiting:
The Argentinian correspondent in Europe for ESPN, Christian Martin had criticized the French press in February, which would go after Lionel Messi, even going so far as to speak of a “
lack of professionalism
”.
The Argentinian journalist had detailed his remarks by explaining that in the country which saw the light of day, this treatment is perceived as being “
without objectivity with bad intentions in relation to the analysis of the match
”.
Christian Martin has not been kind to French journalists who, according to him, lack “
knowledge or have bad intentions
”.
The compatriot of number 30 of PSG expressed the feelings of the Argentines on the criticisms made against the child king "
We have had this perception for a few months.
At first it was the beginning of the relationship, we had love and passion when Leo arrived in Paris.
But we had expected that it would change in the winter.
The French league is tough, it's not as easy as people thought.
But we were surprised and disappointed by the lack of professionalism.
If there are bad intentions or a lack of knowledge, it is a lack of professionalism
”.
A small nuance was brought by Marcelo Gallardo, the coach of River Plate.
Asked about the whistles suffered by Lionel Messi, the Argentine coach said: “
We also abused him.
Let's not play patriots now.
Remember.
Let's have memory.
I totally disagree (with the whistles).
But in football, nothing surprises me
.
Lionel Messi had indeed been taken in dislike by the supporters of Albiceleste because he had not managed to win titles with the selection.
The former Barça player had also ended his international career at 29 after a defeat in the Copa America final against Chile in 2016. The Argentines then shot Lionel Messi down, accusing him of giving up cowardly vessel.