A young Chinese soccer fan gave security the slip to hug his hero Lionel Messi mid-game
It was the sort of astonishing run the world has come to expect from those who don Argentina’s iconic number 10 soccer jersey. From the corner of the pitch, the fleet-footed figure evades one challenger and leaves two others trailing hopelessly in his wake as he sprints the length of half the pitch and high-fives his side’s goalkeeper, all to the adoring cheers of the crowd.
But even before the fan’s antics, interest in the event had been sky high. Tickets to the match at the 68,000-capacity Workers’ Stadium, which cost up to $4,800 yuan , sold out within 20 minutes, according to Chinese state media Global Times, while touts advertised tickets online for multiple times their face value. Messi and his teammates were temporarily “trapped” in their Beijing hotel at the weekend after large numbers of fans gathered outside, Chinese state media reported.
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