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Argentine football star Lionel Messi has apologized to Chinese fans for skipping a friendly game in Hong Kong over the weekend due to an injury, only to be spotted playing in Japan days after. What happened: Inter Miami CF announced in December that it would be traveling to Hong Kong on Feb. 4, Sunday, to have a friendly match with an all-star Hong Kong team composed of some of the best football players in the First Division League at the 40,000-capacity Hong Kong Stadium. Several Chinese fans, some of whom paid as much as 4,880 Hong Kong dollars ($624) for tickets and traveled around 12 hours, booed and chanted “refund” when Messi spent the day on the bench.
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