In the past few days, the media is reporting that Lionel Messi has only come to China to play a friendly with the Australian team.
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Meanwhile, the former Barcelona star will not go with the Argentina team to Indonesia to compete.
"According to the agreement with Lionel Scaloni, Messi will not play the second match against Indonesia in Jakarta," reported Argentina's El Destape newspaper.
Tyc Sports revealed, because the score added in the friendly match against the thousands of islands is quite small, so M10 asked for permission to be absent.
Meanwhile, Vermouth Deportivo said, Messi wants to return to Europe to complete some related procedures to move to the US to live and play for Inter Miami club.
Information that the owner of 7 Golden Balls did not play a friendly match with the home team, disappointing Indonesian fans.
Even, many people have demanded the Indonesian Football Federation (PSSI) return the ticket.
In response, PSSI President Erick Thohir flatly rejected the offer. The head of Indonesian football confirmed that from the beginning PSSI only said to sell tickets to the match with Argentina, not to compete with Messi.
Therefore, Mr. Thohir said the refund of the ticket purchase will certainly not be accepted.
"I pray for Messi to come to Jakarta, pray for Messi to play a friendly against Indonesia," PSSI president told CNN Indonesia.
Earlier, many sources said that the Indonesian side had to spend up to 16 million USD (about 376 billion VND) to organize the match with the Argentina team.
As planned, the match between Indonesia and Argentina will take place on June 19 at Gelora Bung Karno Stadium in Jakarta (Indonesia).
