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Argentina’s triumph sparked a tattoo mania. Messi’s statement about the idiot is also to blame

The frenzy of Argentine fans after the victory of their footballers in Qatar continues even in the birthplace of Lionel Messi, the million-strong city of Rosario.

For example, tattoo parlors are busy there now, and they don’t have time to process orders. Thousands of Argentinians want to have Messi and other players of the star team or various symbols associated with the championship tattooed on their bodies. The EFE agency reported about it today.

“It’s crazy and it’s going to be a long time…I think it’s going to take a few months. We already had enough orders, an average of fifty consultations a day, now we have over three hundred. We just can’t keep up,” described Maximiliano Carreras of the Orbe tattoo studio from of the Rosario Center. According to him, the biggest interest is in the picture of Messi kissing the World Cup. However, the Argentinians also want to tattoo coach Lionel Scaloni, goalkeeper Emiliano Martínez and Ángel Di María, who was also born in Rosario.

Some have simpler requirements, such as a symbolic date or Messi’s name. “We also have requests to perpetuate the message: What are you looking at, you idiot!,” said Carreras, referring to the sentence uttered by Messi after the heated quarter-final with the Netherlands, which the Argentine captain addressed to the opponent’s striker Wout Weghorst for his several attacks on the pitch. This Messi statement it has already been used, for example, by an Argentine winery, which printed it on the label of its wines.

“It’s his first tattoo, we made an appointment a month and a half ago, and he originally wanted a cat. But with our victory at the championship, he changed his mind,” Luciana Diezová, who came to the salon with her son Jerónimo, told EFE. He will soon celebrate his 18th birthday and just got a tattoo of Messi kissing the Champions Cup on his leg. Even Messi has a penchant for tattoos, he has several on his body.

Another salon in Rosario is experiencing a similar tattoo boom. “We have up to four times more orders for pictures of Messi, Diba Martínez or the cup and other things connected with the championship in Qatar,” EFE quoted the owner of the Slave Tattoo salon. According to him, there is still interest in the tattoo of the legendary Diego Maradona, who died the year before last and who led Argentina to the championship title in 1986.

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