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Lionel Messi has fulfilled his dream to win the FIFA World Cup trophy (AP Picture)
In a tweet that was later retracted by Khaleque, he wrote, “Congratulations from the core of my coronary heart. We’re happy with you to your Assam Connection.”
In gentle of soccer legend Lionel Messi’s legendary FIFA World Cup win in opposition to France on Sunday, Congress MP Abdul Khaleque took to Twitter to congratulate him. Nevertheless, he additionally talked about Messi’s “Assam Connection” and claimed the soccer participant was born in Assam.
In a tweet that was later retracted by Khaleque, he wrote, “Congratulations from the core of my coronary heart. We’re happy with you to your Assam Connection.” The declare got here as a shock for a lot of and Twitter customers had been fast to take a dig on the Congress chief.
Whereas one consumer wrote, “Sure sir, he was my classmate”, one other stated, “After the world cup, Messi and his spouse visited Assam. Always remember the place you come from.” “I realized at present that I used to be born in Assam,” one other consumer posted an image of Messi, mocking the two-time MLA. BJP chief Ramesh Solanki took to Twitter and shared screenshots of the deleted tweet.
Lionel Messi, sporting a black Qatari gown over his blue-and-white Argentina shirt, kissed the World Cup, shuffled towards his teammates and hoisted the golden trophy excessive within the air. It was an iconic sight that lastly — definitively — locations the soccer celebrity within the pantheon of the sport’s biggest gamers.
Messi’s once-in-a-generation profession is full: He’s a World Cup champion.
Argentina received its third World Cup title by beating France 4-2 in a penalty shootout after a 3-3 draw that includes two targets from the 35-year-old Messi and a hat trick by his inheritor obvious, France ahead Kylian Mbappé.
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