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Why PSG fans booed Messi, Mbappe & Co.: Their frustration runs much deeper than the Champions League

For the first time since he joined the club last August, Lionel Messi got to know properly the Paris Saint-Germain ultras. On Sunday, against Bordeaux at the Parc des Princes, he was booed throughout the game. It didn't matter that PSG won 3-0; Messi would have rather avoided their wrath, but it happened, and it kind of shook the football world. Here was the world's best player, arguably the best of all time, being heckled by fans who had previously flooded the streets of the French capital to greet him.