Tons of of journalists from throughout the globe had been in attendance on the Qatar College’s soccer coaching facility on Saturday. All of them had been ready for Argentina’s coaching session to start and catch a glimpse of Lionel Messi.
The likes of Paulo Dybala and Lautaro Martinez had been on the pitch doing warm-up drills, however all of the cameras zoomed in on the doorway at Argentina’s base camp. A number of minutes handed, however Messi didn’t flip up.
The lengthy wait was irritating. Instantly, a British journalist sitting within the gallery introduced: “Messi will miss the World Cup!” As there was full silence, his voice was loud sufficient to be heard by everybody. His joke didn’t go down properly with the journalists and cameramen sitting round him. All of them craned their neck and checked out him furiously.
Fortunately for him, Messi stepped onto the sector simply 4 minutes earlier than the top of the time allowed for the media to cowl the coaching session. The sound of digicam clicks crammed the air as Messi walked in direction of the group’s assistant coach standing on the japanese nook of the bottom. For a while, he calmly walked on the pitch, unperturbed by the noise round him. Then he joined his teammates on the bottom and did some ball management drills.
The assistant coach glanced at his watch. Because the time allowed for mediapersons ended, we began leaving the sector. Once I smiled on the man who made that ‘unforgivable’ remark, he smiled again and gave me a thumbs up. I believe the poor fellow too was a Messi fan!