I'm with you tbh. For context: Here in Germany this is the reason that offenders have a right to privacy, so their faces and their full names aren't allowed to be shown / named (in german media).
This regulation has its own issues imo, but makes sense in this case: The offender gets punished, but they don't have to suffer their whole life for it.
A long time Inter Miami reporter:
Makes perfect sense to me that argentine reporters have the inside story on Messi. Don't know what he expected tbh. To many, he's the goat after all.