Dribble, 13.2/photo: Walla studio! Video editing: Ziv Steiner
While Argentina is waiting to hear whether Leo Messi will decide to join the team in the Olympic Games, in France they are not forgetting the phenomenon's jarring farewell to Paris Saint-Germain and winning the World Cup at the expense of the tricolor, and are preparing in case he reaches the Olympic tournament.
The provocative commentator of "RMC", Jerome Rotten, in his program incited the football fans in France against Messi and called to boo him if he returns to the city of lights.
"We mustn't forget what he didn't give. As a Frenchman and a Parisian, to see him bragging here with Argentina? If there's a way to repay him for pissing on us and laughing in our faces for two years, it's to boo him and show him that we're very unhappy with the image he'll give Paris Saint-Germain Germain, to Paris and France," Rotten raged.
The commentator also did not forget the Argentinian's statements since he left for Inter Miami: "He scolded PSG, France, Paris. He said it was a disaster to live in the city, that he was not received as he should have been. Nonsense. They put him on top of a tower Eiffel, like Neymar. All the French respected him, you would expect him to respect back and it never happened."
France does not forget.
Messi and the "honor" at Paris Saint-Germain training after winning the World Cup/screenshot, from Twitter
Messi, as I remember, expressed disappointment that he was the only world champion whose team did not give him a warm welcome.
Of course, this was due to the fact that France and Kylian Mbappe, who collaborated with the flea in PSG, were on the losing side in the final in Qatar: "You beat France in the final! What did you expect, that they would roll out a red carpet for you?", Ruthen attacked.
At the end, he added a criticism: "His ability at no point met expectations. He signed here to star in the World Cup, we all understood that."
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