Is it true that at the World Cup Messi, Materno sent Zelensky and called on Ukrainian refugees to blame Europe?

Such messages about the statement of the Argentine football player appeared on the network a few days ago. Together with them, a photo in which the athlete holds a piece of paper with an inscription sending the Ukrainian president into three letters is also distributed. We checked the reliability of these publications.

The earliest entries about the words of Lionel Messi appeared in Telegram on November 20, 2022. According to publications, the football player expressed his thoughts about Ukrainian refugees and the actions of Vladimir Zelensky "Yesterday at the opening of the World Cup in Qatar." The following quote is given: “I'm tired of looking at this meaningless war! Zelensky, take your people and fall from Europe, we know the truth! ” It is understood that this phrase can be heard on a certain video from the locker room. The publications also attach a picture in which Messi holds a white piece of paper, where it is written “Zelenski Idi Nahyi”.

According to the service TGSTAT, November 20, the posts with the photo and the Messi statement received more than 480,000 views. Among others, such publications appeared in the following channels: ""Urgent news!"(59,000 views),"Warming"(73,000),"Urgent news"(115 000),"I am in the know"(86 000),"Cartridge"(94,000) and"Conflict"(56 000). From the messenger, the news migrated to other sites, for example, in public in VKontakte (examples here, here, here And here) and on personal pages of users (here, here, here, here And here), as well as on Twitter (here And here) And Facebook.

To begin with, the 2022 World Cup in Catar Started November 20, then passed And the opening ceremony of this sporting event. At the same time, in viral publications it is implied that the opening took place the day before this date, that is, on the 19th. Suppose this is a simple typo. And what about Messi's photo?

The picture of interest to us was changed in a graphic editor. With the help of the opposite Search By the picture, we learned that the initial photograph was published back in 2014. On his instagram Messi Laid Her on May 22, 2014, and in the original on paper the phrase "Fuerza Luca!" ("Creep, onions!"). That month just Get The popularity is the same flash mobIn which tens of thousands of people, including famous personalities participated. They were photographed with the inscription "Fuerza Luca" to support a nine -year -old boy named Luca Senator, who It was necessary Cancer treatment.

Note that the pictures of celebrities holding paper sheets or posters with inscriptions often turn into memes. For example, it was with a photo of another football player, Cristiano Ronaldoand s Arnold Schwarzenegger. This fate did not go around and Messiwhose picture in 2015 Used In the action #thank you. Suppose that the altered photo simply served as a clickbeat and was only necessary to increase the virality of posts. Perhaps some users were even able to remember the old meme. And what about the quote of the football player?

In open sources, we were not able to find any appeals of Messi to Zelensky, especially with a demand to take Ukrainian refugees from Europe. As for the above video from the locker room, it is like Approved In many viral publications, supposedly should be placed in the Telegram channel "World Cup 2022 | Qatar 2022", However, we could not find a similar video there. This channel was Created November 19, 2022, and in the description It is saidthat this is the official channel of the World Cup - 2022, while it does not have a verification box, but on the site FIFA Telegram is not indicated at all in the list of contacts. Judging by the fact that in all the mentioned Telegram channels the record with Messi’s statement has already been deleted (and almost everywhere a day after a day), these were only clickbeat posts in which a recently created channel was advertised with the help of a fake.

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