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The world champion said to the radio station “Urbana Play”: “I don’t like what I did. These are moments of great tension. Everything happens very quickly and you react. But it wasn’t planned that way at all.”
The flashback: in an interview with the Argentine channel “TyCSports”, Messi did not look in the direction of the reporter who tried to ask him a question, but with a serious, angry expression at “Oranje” goalscorer Wout Weghorst. “What are you looking at, idiot? What are you looking at, idiot,” spat Messi. Visibly irritated, the reporter tried to calm the angry Argentine, touched his shoulder lightly and said: “Calm, calm.”
Messi’s realization came late, however, that his reaction in the heat of the moment had overshot the mark a bit.
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