Argentine airport authorities seized 250 fake Inter Miami T-shirts with the name of Lionel Messi in a few days. entered the country allegedly for commercial purposes, in the context of the maximum expectation of the debut of the world champion in MLS.
This Friday, security officials at Jorge Newbery Airport in the city of Buenos Aires, which operates national and regional flights, seized 250 shirts over the past week “in various procedures,” according to Argentine customs sources, according to Argentine customs sources.
Among them, the authorities singled out the case of an Argentine woman who tried to enter the country from Chile with 50 trujas (fake) T-shirts, which they suspect “Imported for commercial purposes.”
The passenger denied that he was traveling with anything to testify, but the scanner showed “a large number of very similar T-shirts, which was amazing”, so agents began to check the luggage and found 50 pink T-shirts with Messi’s name on the back, “all labeled and in matching plastic packaging.”
According to the authorities, who remember that the official Inter Miami jersey with the name of the Rosario star is not yet sold in Argentina, fakes were “extremely close to the original”which confirms the suspicion that the traveler was looking for “make a profit improperly.”
Argentina’s Lionel Messi will make his Florida debut this Friday against Mexico’s Cruz Azul in the League Cup, the new official North American tournament in which all Major League Soccer (MLS, American League) and Liga MX (Mexico) teams will compete for a month.
The team, led by Gerardo “Tata” Martino, also from Rosario, has in its ranks two of Messi’s former Barcelona teammates, Spaniards Sergio Busquets and Jordi Alba.
Rumors have also been growing in recent days, still unconfirmed, about another possible addition that will end this Inter Miami with a distinct smoky flavor: the signing of Uruguayan Luis Suarez, who is now with Grêmio in Brazil.