Barcelona SLAMMED for celebrating Twitter engagement record after Messi's Maradona tribute

Argentine legend Diego Marona passed away last week after suffering a fatal cardiac arrest at his Bues Aires home. 1986 World Cup sensation is widely regarded as one of greatest players to ever grace sport and h a stellar career where he played for likes of Boca Juniors, Napoli and Barcelona. Blaugrana were among many to pay tribute to late 60-year-old, and ir social media broke records after gesture. 

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Within 24 hours of ir 4-0 thumping of Osasuna, where Barcelona and Messi paid tribute to Diego Marona, club's social media broke multiple records. picture of captain Lionel Messi's celebration, where he sported Marona's .10 on a Newell's Old Boys shirt, received third most likes in history of FC Barcelona's Instagram account and created 20 million interactions in just one day on Club's channel. Barcelona's Spanish and English Twitter accounts generated more than 1.4 million interactions respectively. Messi celebration photo recorded 180,000 likes,  second-highest in 2020, only behind anuncement of death of Diego Marona.

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Barcelona's YouTube and Facebook channels also enjoyed a fair share of interactions, also breaking several club engment records. It is worth ting that Blaugrana have generated most interactions on social media for past three seasons, ahe of likes of Liverpool, Manchester United, Juventus and Real Mrid according to Blinkfire. However, Barcelona faced massive backlash from ir followers who slammed club for celebrating record numbers with reference to Marona's death. Many fans called club's antics embarrassing asking social media team to delete post to save m from furr embarrassment.

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Furrmore,  LaLiga giants could be hit with a reported €3000 fine for Messi's Marona tribute, to do with taking off his shirt to reveal Newell's kit underneath. Newell's fan Messi kissed his hands and pointed to sky, recreating an im of Marona in his brief spell at Argentine outfit. Barcelona captain was booked for his celebration, as FIFA's laws state that a player who removes his jersey after scoring a goal will be cautioned for unsporting behaviour.

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(Im Courtesy: FC Barcelona Twitter)