BEIJING, June 10 ― Football superstar Lionel Messi arrived in Beijing by private jet today and was greeted by hundreds of jubilant fans, with his World-Cup-winning Argentina...
BEIJING, June 10 ― Football superstar Lionel Messi arrived in Beijing by private jet today and was greeted by hundreds of jubilant fans, with his World-Cup-winning Argentina set to face Australia in a friendly match next week.
Several hundred others waited outside his hotel, not far from the banks of the Liangma River, popular with Beijingers for strolls.World champions Argentina will play a friendly against Australia on June 15 at Beijing's newly-renovated 68,000-capacity Workers' Stadium. The friendly will mark the return of international football to China, after three years of strict Covid-19 restrictions that emptied stadiums and led to a cascade of cancellations of sporting competitions.
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