Lionel Messi refuses to accept Best Player Award at Copa America

Lionel Messi refuses to accept Best Player Award at Copa America :

Lionel Messi after his side's Copa America final loss against Chile, declined to get the Best Player. The spot where the Best Player Trophy apparently ought to have been put was seen empty at the presentation function.

Messi supposedly asked for coordinators to remove the trophy

A feature has surfaced in which an authority shows up behind the trophy and takes it off the stage. As indicated by reports in Argentina, Messi is accepted to have trained the competition authorities to cut down the Best Player Trophy in front of an audience at the presentation at Chile's National Stadium in Santiago.

After a to a great extent fruitful season at Barcelona, where he helped his side accomplish the subtle treble for the second time in six years, he didn't score an open objective this competition. In spite of the fact that he was essential to his group's relative accomplishment of completing runners-up in the mainland competition.

The coordinators apparently "deleted" the trophy from the desired rundown of trophies present on the stage, and did not report any champ for the Best Player Award. Messi's dismay next to him misfortune was clear when he strolled onto stage to gather his runners-up decoration.

A circumstance like the 2014 World Cup

Fiercely criticised for not duplicating his Barcelona frame in Argentine hues, Messi drew the fault for neglecting to drag his team over the completing line in the 2015 Copa America. This is was Argentina's second final loss in the two years in a noteworthy competition in two years. The last one was the 2014 World Cup final loss in Brazil against Germany.

Messi was seen as liable of a comparable episode at the World Cup in Brazil where he went in front of an audience to gather the Golden Ball Award after his side lost the finals, which he couldn't maintain a strategic distance from. An angry Messi was seen posturing with Manuel Neuer, who got the Golden Glove Award on the stage. He was condemned back home for his motion then.

On the off chance that the reports are correct, this time around, he did abstain from gathering the Best Player Award.

Not the first time in the tournament

After his side's 2-2 draw against Paraguay, Messi did not acknowledge the Man Of The Match Award. The "Albiceleste" had gone 2-0 up just to yield two objectives later.

 Argentina's baffling opening match in the competition was exemplified by Messi as he rejected the grant toward the end of the diversion. On the other hand they tailed it up with a string of splendid exhibitions, winning 6-1 against Paraguay in the semi-finals of the competition.