Hundreds of Chinese fans welcomed Messi to Beijing

BEIJING – Hundreds of Chinese fans On Saturday, they went to the city’s airport and the Four Seasons Hotel in Beijing to welcome Leo Messiwho arrived Saturday morning in the Chinese capital to join a rally Argentine national team For the friendly match that will be held on Thursday against Australia in the Chinese capital.

Hundreds of people gathered in front of the aforementioned hotel, starting on Saturday morning Let’s see soon the arrival of Messi and the rest of the players who arrived with him.

An hour after the arrival of the Argentine star, The hashtag “Messi is already in Beijing” has become the most watched topic on Weibo social networkwith over 120 million entries.

This is the seventh trip to China for the star, who arrived in Beijing on a private plane with others who called for friendship, according to pictures published by official Chinese media.

also Defenders Nicolas Otamendi (Benfica), Christian Romero (Tottenham), Exequiel Palacios (Bayer Leverkusen) and Facundo Buonanotte (Brighton) are already in Beijing.who were the first to arrive in the Chinese capital.

She will play Argentina, the current world champions The last two friendlies before the United States, Mexico and Canada’s World Cup qualifiers are against Australia in BeijingNext Thursday, and against Indonesia in Jakarta on the 19th.

The Argentine national team’s duel against the Saudi national team will be a re-issue of the confrontation that it fought on December 3 at Ahmed Bin Ali Stadium in Al Rayyan in the round of 16 of the Qatar 2022 World Cup.In which Lionel Scaloni’s team won 2-1 with two goals from Messi and Julian Alvarezwith many difficulties.