Argentina's Lionel Messi Mocked As' Chinese '

Lionel Messi, Argentina's captain, has won the World Cup with his superb soccer skills. Chinese netizens, who love to enjoy the popularity, posted a parody saying that Lionel Messi is Chinese and that he immigrated to Argentina with his father at a young age.

Messi, whose profile and appearance are not Oriental faces, was named Mei Jianguo by Chinese netizens, who wrote on Weibo that his ancestral home is Fujian, Shanxi, Shandong and Guangdong. They also fabricated a family tree saying that Mei Jianguo's grandfather Medhua went to Argentina to sell tofu in his early years, and his father Mei himself married the daughter of a chief there.