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Even Hong Kong’s government weighed in Sunday when Lionel Messi remained on the bench during a pre-season friendly soccer match between his Inter Miami team and Hong Kong’s team. Hong Kong Stadium’s 40,000 seats sold out for the event, which ended in a win for Inter Miami. But while the crowd started out excited at the idea of seeing the Argentine soccer star and World Cup champion play, they were soon chanting “We want Messi,” followed by “Where is Messi?” and, ultimately, booing and chanting “refund, refund, refund” when he still hadn’t taken the field in the final 20 minutes of the game, CN…

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