Colombia crash: Leo Messi's missed call with death
Synopsis
Messi along with his Barcelona teammates paid tributes to the deceased Chapecoense FC players on Twitter couple of days ago. Messi had travelled to San Juan with his national side to play a world cup qualifying match against Colombia.
Brazil had announced three days of mourning after Chapecoense FC footballers died in a plane crash in Colombia. The footballers and all the clubs across the globe paid tribute to the deceased players. The world was in a state of shock after the incident.
Believe it or not, Barcelona and the Argentina forward Lionel Messi was on the same plane which crashed near San Juan few days ago along with the Chapecoense FC. Did your heart skip a beat?
Messi travelled with his national side to San Juan to play a world cup qualifying match against Colombia. In that match he even opened the scoring with a beaut of a free-kick. Argentina eventually had won 3-0.
One cannot even imagine in their wildest dreams having Messi in the same flight but he did travel couple of weeks ago.
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