Messi Facing Potential Ban For Abusing Referee During Chile Game
Mar 25, 2017 at 1:35 PM
Lionel Messi is one of the greatest players to ever play football but to many, he’ll never be the best until he wins a World Cup or even Copa America with Argentina. And his story with his national side has taken another bump in the road.
The irony is that many people don’t actually rate international football and consider the Champions League to be the premier competition in football now rather than the World Cup, in which case Messi is doing pretty well.
But at international level Messi and Argentina have lossed in their last three finals, the World Cup in 2014 to Germany in extra time and then the Copa America finals of 2015 and 2016, both on penalties and both to Chile.
That second loss was all the Barcelona forward could take and he retired from international duty after the final. Of course, it didn’t last long at all and he was back in the international set-up before 2016 was over.
On Thursday night Argentina played Chile and the 29-year-old reportedly swore at the assistant referee reportedly saying, “F**k you & your mother’s c**t.”
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Argentina had been struggling to qualify for the 2018 World Cup from a very tricky South American qualifying but Messi’s penalty gave them a 1-0 win over Chile last night and into the qualification positions.
However, his outburst could cost him as their next two games in qualifying are tricky away games against Bolivia and Uruguay.