Multi-story mural for hometown hero Lionel Messi
By AFP
05 July 2021 |
11:52 am
Wall-scaling artists have painted a mural of Lionel Messi in the Argentinian town where he was born 34 years ago. The mural covers one end of a four-story apartment building in the La Bajada neighborhood of Rosario where the star lived as a child, and faces the primary school he attended.
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