Perhaps only one person involved in Sunday’s exhibition match between a Hong Kong XI and Inter Miami was not measuring its success in degrees of Lionel Messi.
The supporters who filled Hong Kong Stadium created a tremendous prematch atmosphere before switching to disenchantment as it became clear that Messi, the man they had paid to see, would not be playing in a game that the visitors won 4-1.
But Jorn Andersen, the Hong Kong national team coach who took charge of Miami’s opponents, had other…
