Luis Suarez Calls Lionel Messi "Bobo" After Inter Miami Captain Slaps Him During Birthday Pasillo

Luis Suarez called Lionel Messi "bobo" after the Inter Miami captain slapped his teammate on his 37th birthday during a pasillo on the training pitch.

Luis Suarez turned 37 on Wednesday and spent the morning of his birthday training with his Inter Miami teammates.

Those teammates marked Suarez's big day by giving him a pasillo - a guard of honor.

Miami captain Lionel Messi was stood at the end of one of the rows and gave Suarez a playful slap on his neck as he jogged past.

Suarez responded by shouting at Messi before smiling.

The incident was caught on camera and a video showed Suarez saying to Messi: "Desde cuando pegas vos en los pasillos, bobo?"

That roughly translates into English as: "Since when do you hit in the pasillos, fool?"

🗣️ "¿DESDE CUÁNDO PEGÁS VOS EN LOS PASILLOS, BOBO?"

Luis Suárez a Messi, en el día del cumpleaños del uruguayo 😂😂 pic.twitter.com/yEltdASCif

— Diario Olé (@DiarioOle) January 24, 2024

¿Desde cuando pegas vos en los pasillos, bobo?

De Luis Suárez para Leo Messi. 🇺🇸😂 pic.twitter.com/Zz0eJh01JQ

— TR SPORTS (@trsports_) January 24, 2024

Lionel Messi playfully slapped birthday boy Luis Suarez during an Inter Miami training session on Wednesday / X.com

The word "bobo" was made famous by Messi at the 2022 FIFA World Cup when the Argentina captain used it to insult Wout Weghorst.

During a live post-game interview following Argentina's penalty-shootout win over the Netherlands, Messi delivered a viral moment by sternly asking Dutch forward Weghorst: "Que miras (what are you looking at), bobo?"

Messi later said that he regretted this outburst. "I don't like what I did," he told Urbana Play last year. "I don't like what happened afterward.

"These are moments of a lot of tension, a lot of nerves. It is very quick and people react the way they react. Nothing was planned, it just happened."

Messi llama 'bobo' a Wout Weghorst, jugador de la selección de Países Bajos, en su entrevista ofrecida a TyC Sports. pic.twitter.com/8a2JhIFa21

— Marc Mata (@marcmata13) December 10, 2022

Suarez and Messi are very close friends. They played together at Barcelona for six seasons between 2014 and 2020, assisting each other for 86 goals during that period.

Suarez joined Messi at Miami late last year and has since featured in two friendly matches for the Major League Soccer side - a 0-0 draw with El Salvador and a 1-0 loss to FC Dallas.

Next up for Messi, Suarez and Co is a clash with Al-Hilal in Saudi Arabia on Monday.

That game will be followed by a match against Cristiano Ronaldo's Al Nassr on February 1. However, Ronaldo is a fitness doubt for the event due to a muscular injury that forced Al Nassr to cancel a recent tour of China.