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Argentine tattooists swamped by demand for Messi tributes

Argentine tattooists swamped by demand for Messi tributes

By Alipate Narawa
23/12/2022
[Photo: CNN]

Since Argentina’s World Cup win turned Buenos Aires into a massive street party, tattoo artists have been hard at work inking the image of Lionel Messi on the bodies of fans paying tribute to the man who has come to rival the legend of the country’s other soccer god, Diego Maradona.

In Argentina, millions of men and women took to the streets on Tuesday to give the national team a hero’s welcome as they toured the capital by bus after returning from Qatar.

Tattoo artist, Sebastian Arguello Paz says he knew lots of people wanted tattoos of Messi and the team, because they had already booked him before the final, but he never imagined there would be a queue at the shop the next day.

The day after Argentina beat France on penalties in a nail-biting final, Arguello said the phone in his studio had been ringing non-stop with questions about tattoos of Messi, the World Cup and Argentina flags.

[Source: CNN]

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