Rosario, Argentina: “From another galaxy …
and from my environment,” said a newly painted mural from Lionel Messi in the city of Argentina where he was born 34 years ago.
The mural includes one end of the four-story apartment building in the La Bajada neighborhood in Rosario where the star lives as a child, and faces the elementary school he attended.
“We thought of Leo and the admiration we had for him and we thought that nothing was big enough to reveal that in Rosario,” Marlen Zuriga, one of the murals, told AFP.
14 meters of art, as high as 8 meters launched on Thursday described Messi bearded, barefoot, and a smaller player as a child juggling the ball.
Messi adults have a pair of boots, straps tied together, hanging on their necks.
One boot is black and other gold, describing a record of six gold shoes Messi has won as the top scorer in Europe.
Barcelona legend – widely regarded as the best soccer player from the modern era – has become the top scorer in Spain La Liga a record eight times.
The Argentine captain currently leads his team at the Copa America in Brazil where he is the top scorer on the Group stage with three goals.
Argentina then played Ecuador in the quarter-finals on Saturday.