After in a first moment the Federation of Football of Morocco asked explanations to the Association of the Argentinian Football (AFA) by the absence of Leo Messi in the friendly party of this week, now from the African country already have received the corresponding explanations, when alleging the AFA that the '10' of the FC Barcelona suffers an injury, and from here his absence in Tangier.
Although the Federation of Football of Morocco showed initially annoying by the drop of the Argentinian star, at the end has understood and accepted the drop. The AFA had engaged "by agreement" to play in Tangier with "his team To", and in fact has foreseen to play with good part of the best players that has included Lionel Scaloni in the announcement of the albiceleste.
After having lost against Venezuela of conclusive way (1-3), to Scaloni will not remain him another that range to the best available players to harvest a good result in front of Morocco, that serve to improve the image of an albiceleste that does not convince neither ilusiona to anybody, and still less with the absence of the best player of the world.
Going back to the drop of Leo Messi, precisely, the Federation of Football of Morocco already has issued a new communiqué in which it explains that it already has been "informed officially by the organiser of the party of the absence by injury of Messi. This absence, according to the organiser, is due to the injury that suffered the player the Friday in the friendly in front of Venezuela and to that the player has had to go back to his club to Barcelona to recover ".
The communiqué explains besides that "the Moroccan federation had asked explanations to the organiser of the party after the informations appeared on the possible absence of Leo Messi", but this second communiqué serves to resolve once and for all the controversy in Morocco, that will have to conform with playing in front of an Argentinian without Leo Messi.
Morocco will save money with the drop of Messi
The press of Morocco, simultaneously, has informed in the last hours that the absence of Lionel Messi in the friendly party will save to the Moroccan federation a total of 5 million dirhams (some 450.000 euros), when having to credit only 6 million dirhams (550.000 euros) in place of 11 millions (one million euros), as it had remained agreed with the participation of Messi, as it informs the newspaper 'To the Ahdaz to the Magrebiya'. Every cloud has a silver lining.