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From what Messi said immediately after, he was rather upset at some Dutch behavior (I didn't watch the game so idk what it'd have been) and also at the referee -especially at the ref- and I guess he wasn't in a sporting mood. That's too bad because t-shirt exchanges are a nice touch :(

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During the penalty shootout, where teams traditionally stay quietly on the center circle and keep to themselves, the Dutch team decided to intercept and harass the Argentine penalty takers going to the penalty stop. This kind of unsportmanship was never seen before (Dutch always innovating lol) and understandably the Argentines were quite peeved.

For example see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z49OiTt_b9s I don't understand why the referee didn't apply a yellow card.

Yeah idk after looking into it more after the response, it seems like others are suggesting it wasn't simply the request for his shirt, but the request following bad calls by refs and provocations from the Dutch team.

Who knows what all went down, but definitely not as simple as he was being asked to exchange shirts. He had to of been either instigated prior by the other team/another player or fuming from bad calls

He doesn't do this every time. Clearly he was animated.

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