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For the vast majority of football fans, meeting Lionel Messi would be a great honour and privilege.

The Argentine superstar is without doubt the best player on the planet at the moment. A treble winner with Barcelona last season and an incredible individual performer throughout, he won the Ballon d'Or earlier this month by a country mile. Nobody can deny he deserved it.

Still, there's at least one set of supporters who are less than impressed by Messi's success. The better he performs, the more accolades he receives, the more he annoys Real Madrid fans.

There's no love for Leo amongst Los Blancos - as this video proves.

The above clip was part of an hour-long reality TV special aired on China’s Zhejiang TV recently; the show followed Messi on his latest trip to East Asia. In this segment of the programme, Lionel surprised a local youth team by turning up unannounced in their dressing room after a training session.

Strangely, none of them seemed particularly excited to meet him. Especially not this lad.

When Messi entered the changing room, Li Boxi (the youngster in question) remained seated and essentially ignored the Barca icon. When he was eventually dragged over by his coach, he seemed both underwhelmed and somehow embarrassed to be filmed standing next to Leo.

We think it might have something to do with the Real Madrid jacket he was wearing.

Li may well have preferred to meet Cristiano Ronaldo , but this was still a bizarre (and painfully awkward) reaction to meeting a global icon of the beautiful game.

There's just no pleasing some people.