Due to Messi’s absence in Hong Kong, they negotiate with fans to avoid lawsuits – 2024-03-30 22:09:19

There is no doubt that the absence of Lionel Messi on February 4 in the Inter Miami friendlies in Hong Kong had and continues to have a strong impact on the sporting environment.

Let us remember that a muscular discomfort did not allow the Argentine star to play the aforementioned preseason match, a situation that triggered a lot of annoyance among the organizers of the event and of course, the fans who spent significant monetary amounts in vain (110 dollars for the cheapest ticket). .

The situation was a before and after for the next friendlies that the world champion team will play in Qatar 2022, since despite Messi’s apology on social networks, the discomfort continued and caused the matches to be moved from China to the United States, also causing the previously confirmed rival teams, Nigeria and Ivory Coast, to decline due to the change of venue and be replaced by El Salvador and Costa Rica.

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Negotiation to avoid lawsuits

A month and a half after the lack of “the flea”, the organizers of the friendly negotiate with the people who bought tickets, offering them to return 50% of their value with the condition of not initiating legal action against the company that promoted and organized the match.

Tatler Asia, the company in charge of the event, offered this week a refund of half the value of each ticket for those fans who bought them through official sales channels. To recover that 50%, each buyer must agree not to initiate “action before any court of law, tribunal or regulatory authority.”

After passing through Hong Kong, Inter Miami traveled to Japan where Messi played half an hour in the friendly against Vissel Kobe in Tokyo, a situation that generated much more discomfort in Hong Kong, to the point that the Government of that country intervened and There were economic consequences for the organizer of the meeting.