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Mexican boxer Canelo Alvarez apologized for publicly threatening Lionel Messi after he took offense to a dressing-room video that appeared to show the Argentine striker nudging away a Mexican jersey on the floor with his foot.
Messi scored in Argentina’s 2-0 victory over Mexico at the world cup on Saturday and Alvarez, who has 2.2 million followers on Twitter, said that the striker “should ask God that I don’t find him” having taken offense at the video.
On Wednesday, however, Alvarez tweeted that he got carried away and apologized to Messi and the people of Argentina.
“These last few days I got carried away by
