Hundreds of Chinese fans flocked to the city’s airport and hotel on Saturday Beijing Four Seasons to receive Leo Messiwho arrived this morning in the Chinese capital to join the concentration of the Argentine team for the friendly that will be played on Thursday against Australia in the Chinese capital.
Hundreds of people gathered in front of the mentioned hotel since this morning to see up close the arrival of Messi and the rest of the players who came with him.
An hour after the arrival of the Argentinian star, the hashtag “Messi is already in Beijing” became the most viewed topic on the social network Weibowith more than 120 million entries.
This is the seventh trip to China of the star, which came to beijing in a private plane along with others summoned for the friendly, according to images released by official Chinese media.
They are also already in beijing the defenders Nicholas Otamendi (Benfica) and Christian Romero (Tottenham), exequiel palacios (Bayer Leverkusen) and Facundo Buonanotte (Brighton), who were the first to arrive in the Chinese capital.
Argentinacurrent world champion, will play their last two friendlies before the qualifying rounds for the United States World Cup, Mexico and Canada in view of Australia in beijingnext Thursday, and in front of Indonesia in jakarta on the 19th.
The duel of the Albiceleste against the ‘Socceroos’ will be the reissue of the confrontation they had on December 3 at the stadium Ahmad bin Ali of Al-Rayyan in the round of 16 of the World Cup in Qatar 2022, in which the table of lionel scaloni won 2-1 with goals from Messi and Julian Alvarezand with many difficulties.
