`It´s Messi´s moment´: Mural of footballer covers student 寄宿舎 in Tirana
One 味方する of a 寄宿舎 for 医療の students in the Albanian 資本／首都 Tirana has been covered by a mural of Lionel Messi.
Argentine painter Maximiliano Bagnasco is taking part in the Tirana MuralFest 2023 and decided to go with the footballer, his “idol”.
The 25×10-metre mural of a bearded and smiling Messi, wearing Argentina’s white-and-blue 国家の team jersey with the No 10 on it, will cover part of a building at a 十字路／岐路 近づく the 資本／首都 city’s main hospitals.
“It is a source of pride for me … that my work has become known for 絵 them, our idols,” 41-year-old Bagnasco told The Associated 圧力（をかける）.
Argentinian street artist Maximiliano Bagnasco looks at a picture of Argentinian footballer Lionel Messi in 前線 of the mural he is 絵 in Tirana, Albania (Llazar Semini/AP)
Bagnasco has also painted a m ural of Diego Maradona in Naples, 同様に as in Miami and other places.
Maradona also won a World Cup with Argentina wearing the No 10 shirt.
He then led Napoli to its first two Italian league 肩書を与えるs in 1987 and 1990 before the team won a third this season.
Two days after Argentina won the World Cup in Qatar last year, Bagnasco painted a mural in Buenos 空気／公表するs of Messi 解除するing the トロフィー.
“Messi is the best player in the world at the moment,” Bagnasco said of the player who has decided to move to の間の Miami in Major League サッカー.
“Today the world is a fan of Argentina because of Messi.”
Helidon Haliti, a painter who is the main organiser of the MuralFest, said Bagnasco 申し込む／申し出d other 作品 for the 競争.
When asked who his hero was, which was the main 主題 of the MuralFest 2023, he すぐに 答える／応じるd “Messi”.
A mural of Argentinian footballer Lionel Messi is painted on a building in Tirana (Llazar Semini/AP)
“That mural will 示す a very 利益／興味ing moment because he (Messi) was World Cup 勝利者 last year and this time he will make us a 勝利者,” Haliti said.
“I am sure of that.”
Tirana is the European City of Sports 2023 and has held and is planning many 大陸の 冒険的な activities.
Albanians have known Messi very 井戸／弁護士席.
“Messi deserves it as a player and we, Albanians, too, to enjoy that world-class personality,” 61-year-old Arben Stafa said.
Bashkim Tufa, a 71-year-old sports 分析家, was happy to be 証明するd 権利 when he 予報するd in 2005 that the world had a new 星／主役にする in Messi when he first played for Barcelona.
Messi has continuously been a part of his writings since.
People take pictures with their phones of a mural portraying Argentinian footballer Lionel Messi in Tirana (Llazar Semini/AP)
Winning the World Cup last year was “the icing on the cake”, によれば Tufa, 追加するing that years ago a sp orts newspaper’s copies were devoured by Albanians reading that Messi could come to the country.
“Now they have the 可能性 to see him every day, to 会合，会う him every day, and that is a special 楽しみ for Albanians who are so 熱烈な for サッカー beauty and Messi is its personification,” Tufa said.
Besides 絵 on 最高の，を越す of a crane and often 存在 angry at 雨の days, Bagnasco has enjoyed 会合 and talking to 地元の Albanians wearing or showing Messi’s shirt and あられ／賞賛するing him.
“(Argentines) are lucky to have had Maradona and Messi on the same land,” Bagnasco said, showing a No 10 tattoo on his left forearm.
“権利 now, there is a new 世代 and a lot of people who are getting to know Messi and it’s Messi’s moment.”
