He wore the number 18 on his back, coincidentally his age.
Leo’s first possession, following a pass from Scaloni, saw him increase the speed of the game. The second time he got the ball he went on a run along the centre of the pitch. He had been on the pitch for 92 seconds. The Hungarian defender Vilmos Vanczák went in with a hefty tackle, at the same time grabbing Leo’s shirt, and ‘the Flea’reacted by swinging his arm in the air in an effort to shake off his opponent’s hand. But his flailing arm struck Vanczák’s throat and he fell to the ground, his hands covering his face. ‘Leo Messi will take a long time to forget the face of Markus Merk, the German referee in that Hungary − Argentina game which was his debut with the full international side,’wrote Cristina Cubero in El Mundo Deportivo, witnessing the events of that day, 17 August 2005. Juan Pablo Sorín, Lionel Scaloni, Gabriel Heinze and Robero Ayala all approached the referee and tried to persuade him that Leo’s action was purely defensive and didn’t merit a card. Merk disagreed and, with an exaggerated flourish, held aloft the red. Vanczák received a yellow card. Leo could not believe it and walked off, glancing briefly up at the stands, nervously fiddling with the waistband on his shorts and finally leaving the field with his head bowed.
‘Messi was crushed at that moment,’writes Cubero. ‘He couldn’t even remember that Scaloni had come up to embrace him, or that Hernán Crespo had approached him. He didn’t hear the stadium beginning to chant his name. He went off in tears, crying like a child, tears of frustration, rage and bitterness. The team’s masseur stayed with him in the dressing room.’
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