Dubai (WAM)
The captain of the Argentine national team, Lionel Messi, player of the French club Paris Saint-Germain, visited the Expo 2020 Dubai this afternoon, in a quick tour during which he inspected a number of pavilions and landmarks, led by the Emirates pavilion.
During his visit to the UAE pavilion, Messi met with His Excellency Sheikh Nahyan bin Mubarak Al Nahyan, Minister of Tolerance and Coexistence, Commissioner General of Expo 2020 Dubai, and His Excellency Noura bint Mohammed Al Kaabi, Minister of Culture and Youth, and he signed the pavilion’s visitation book, expressing his happiness to make this visit and expressing his fascination with what he witnessed .
The Argentine star, the ambassador of Expo 2020 Dubai, also met with a group of football talents at the Expo Falls, who were keen to take memorial photos with him, while he flirted with the ball amid their shouts. The player who won the Golden Ball award for the seventh time in his career from “France Football” magazine, a few days ago, did not forget to visit his country’s pavilion, and meet with officials there, before taking a quick tour inside the corridors of the exhibition, riding in a small electric car, concluding his tour by visiting the exhibition’s media center. The exhibition was packed with hundreds of fans of the Argentine star who were keen to follow him during the tour and take memorial photos with him.
Messi was chosen in October of 2019 as the first international ambassador for “Expo 2020 Dubai”, in order to play a prominent role among the supporters of the global event at the time, in order to support the goals of “Expo 2020 Dubai aimed at leaving a permanent imprint on the path of human progress and building a better future, And inculcate the values of positive change.
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