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    Photos: Multi-story mural for hometown hero Lionel Messi

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    Photos: Multi-story mural for hometown hero Lionel Messi

    The Barcelona legend has been the leading scorer in Spain's La Liga a record eight times

    Published:  July 02, 2021 16:53 AFP  and  Compiled by Nathaniel Lacsina, Senior Web Editor
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    Rosario, Argentina: "From another galaxy... and from my neighborhood," declares a freshly painted mural of Lionel Messi in the Argentinian town where he was born 34 years ago. Image Credit: AFP
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    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. Image Credit: AFP
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    "We thought of Leo and the admiration we have for him and we thought that there is nothing big enough to express that in Rosario," Marlen Zuriaga, one of the muralists, told AFP. Image Credit: AFP
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    The 14-meter-high, 8-meter-wide artwork unveiled on Thursday depicts a bearded, shirtless Messi, and the smaller figure of the player as a child juggling a ball. Image Credit: AFP
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    The adult Messi has a pair of boots, laces tied together, hanging around his neck. One boot is black and the other gold, depicting the record six Golden Shoes Messi has won as top scorer in Europe. Image Credit: AFP
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    The Barcelona legend - widely considered the best soccer player of the modern era - has been the leading scorer in Spain's La Liga a record eight times. Image Credit: AFP
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    The Argentina captain is currently leading his team at the Copa America in Brazil where he was the top scorer in the group stage with three goals. Argentina next play Ecuador in the quarter-finals on Saturday. Image Credit: AFP
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    Aerial view of a giant mural depicting Argentinian football star Lionel Messi upon its unveiling in Rosario, Santa Fe, Argentina. - The mural, located in front of the school which Messi attended as a child, is the work of Argentinian artists Fer Lerena, Massi Ledesma, Lisandro Urteaga and Marlen Zuriaga Image Credit: AFP

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