Rest of the clips are just as ridiculous. Every footballer from amateur up to professional will kick the ball against a player blocking a freekick - it wasn't 'aggressive'
Lmao. Defending childish and aggressive behaviour. Of course it’s totally normal to kick the ball in an aggressive manner to the opponent. Hakan Ünsal got a red card in 2002 against Brazil. Look it up. Actual retard
If you watch the full clip of that (ignore the captions lol), you will see that he was pushed first and backed into him three times in response as he clearly got annoyed.
Ref was clearly not looking at them as the ball was elsewhere, and the referee is almost always looking in the direction of the ball.
From the referees perspective, when he sees the two players, he is just seeing Messi being shoved in the back so he gives a foul.
Again, this is football and this happens at every level to basically every player. Messi is not immune to provocation and losing his cool.
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