Controversy Surrounding Sanabria’s Alleged Spit on Messi: Revealing Video Shows the Truth

A new shot of Sanabria’s alleged spit on Lionel Messi

Argentina’s 1-0 victory over Paraguay for the third round of the Qualifiers has left an unexpected controversy surrounding the footballer Antonio Sanabria, who in a video appears to have spit on the captain of the Albiceleste team, Lionel Messi. That scene generated a back-and-forth of statements once the meeting was over and now a revealing video shows the truth.

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The crossing between both players happened with five minutes left as a result of “things in the game,” as the Paraguayan explained later. In the official broadcast it was observed that after arguing, Sanabria appears to spit at Messi when his back is turned. “I was looking, the image came to me. It seems like I spit it out, but not at all. He is far away, but he appears from the picture. As he sees himself from the back, it seems that I spit on him. But nothing to see. “I totally deny it,” declared the current Torino striker in Italy. And now, an image seems to prove him right.

A clip that went viral in the last few hours and that was recorded from another angle shows that there is quite a distance between both players when Sanabria spits and that his action does not seem to be directed towards the Argentine star.

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Messi also referred to the episode in the mixed zone at Mas Monumental: “The truth is that I didn’t see it, they told me there in the locker room that one of them had spit on me. The truth is I don’t even know who this guy is. I didn’t see him, they told me later, but I don’t want to give him importance either because he’s going to go out and talk everywhere and it’s worse, he’s going to become known and it’s better to leave him there.”

Curiously, Sanabria made a good part of his beginnings in football in the Barcelona youth team, starting in youth football until in 2014 he emigrated to Sassuolo in Italy. Even a photo of him with Messi, when he was a little fan of La Pulga in the Catalan team, has gone viral on social networks.

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Another of those who referred to what happened was Lionel Scaloni: “I didn’t see it. I don’t know, I don’t think about something I didn’t see. But if he did that it’s not right. But neither can I ask for something that I don’t know if can be acted upon. But I didn’t see it. I saw the play when he threw the ball over Leo when he asked for it, but I didn’t see it. If he did that it is wrong, I can’t say anything else.”

Argentina beat Paraguay 1-0 and reached 9 points in the Qualifiers in 3 disputed dates to place itself at the top of the table. Messi played just 40 minutes of the match and now the main unknown is whether he will start against Peru in Lima on Tuesday or if he will also be a substitute.

For its part, Albirroja could not add in Daniel Garnero’s debut as coach replacing Guillermo Barros Schelotto. So far, they have only one point and on Tuesday they will host Bolivia, who lost in their three appearances, in search of their first victory. It should be remembered that 48 teams will qualify for the 2026 World Cup, 6 of which will be from Conmbeol, while the one that comes seventh in the South American Qualifiers will go to the playoffs.

2023-10-14 13:18:49
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