G.O.G Posted January 12, 2017 Posted January 12, 2017 Lionel Messi attacked elegantly and stroking the ball with the glove of his left foot. That was how his statue looked until vandals ripped through his torso, head and arms. Only his legs and the ball of that representation of the great striker of Barcelona and the selection Albiceleste remain in the Paseo de la Gloria, a place on the Rio de la Plata, in the Argentine capital. The city government reported Monday night about that episode and said it is already working on repairing the statue inaugurated late June, shortly after Argentina's defeat in the Copa América Centenario final against Chile, in United States. In this walk near the Government House, there are also statues of other legendary Argentine athletes such as basketball player Manu Ginobili, tennis players Gabriela Sabatini and Guillermo Vilas, five-time world champion Formula 1 Juan Manuel Fangio and hockey player Luciana Aymar . In addition to the destruction of the statue of Messi, to Sabatini's at some point they stole his racket. Quote
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