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MIAMI — The organizer of the Inter Miami game in Hong Kong on Sunday where fans booed Lionel Messi for not playing announced on Friday that it will issue a 50% refund to ticket holders, which will amount to $7.2 million. Tickets sold for as high as $624 for the exhibition game and it was attended by nearly 40,000 people, many of whom wore Messi No. 10 jerseys. Messi’s absence drew the ire of the Hong Kong fans, who began chanting “Refund! Refund!” when it became apparent that he would not play. Messi had been hampered by a hip adductor injury and explained in a news conference a day after the …