Wednesday, July 03, 2013
Messi accused of ‘Defrauding American Citizens’
Lionel Messi has been accused of "attempting to defraud American citizens" after the Los Angeles leg of his "Messi & Friends" world tour was cancelled just over 24 hours before it was scheduled to kick-off.
The exhibition tour hit Lima last night with Messi, Neymar, Dani Alves, Ezequiel Lavezzi and Eric Abidal among others turning out to play in the Peruvian capital, though backstage things were going awry as promoters were busy pulling the plug on the match scheduled to take place in LA the following evening (i.e, tonight, 3rd July) despite stating on their official Twitter account that the game was still on a few hours earlier.
Apparently the match, which was due to take place in the LA Coliseum, was pulled when it emerged Messi wouldn’t be taking part, despite all the proceeds (tickets cost as much as $300) going to his eponymous foundation.
The exhibition tour hit Lima last night with Messi, Neymar, Dani Alves, Ezequiel Lavezzi and Eric Abidal among others turning out to play in the Peruvian capital, though backstage things were going awry as promoters were busy pulling the plug on the match scheduled to take place in LA the following evening (i.e, tonight, 3rd July) despite stating on their official Twitter account that the game was still on a few hours earlier.
Apparently the match, which was due to take place in the LA Coliseum, was pulled when it emerged Messi wouldn’t be taking part, despite all the proceeds (tickets cost as much as $300) going to his eponymous foundation.
