>A statue of Argentine football star Lionel Messi has been vandalised in Buenos Aires.
>The bronze statue, unveiled last June, was broken in half and the torso, arms and head removed.
>The motive for the damage was not clear but city officials say repairs to the statue are already under way.
Lionel Messi statue destroyed in Buenos Aires
Elijah Gonzalez
Hudson Hernandez
looool
Christian Brown
Why?
Samuel Turner
...
Christian Russell
>statue of Lionel Messi
Why? I can understand Barcelona putting one up of him in 10 years time or something, but presumably there are better Argentines who deserve a statue in BA.
Might as well build a statue of Rooney in London.
Caleb Morgan
I didn't even know we had one
Bentley Miller
Messi is a huge star and I can see why he has a statue, he came from fuck all to become the best player in the world (on alternating years, at least).
I wonder why it was so deliberately and carefully destroyed though.
Lucas Thomas
We have a statue of Fangio and he won his titles with Ferrari, Mercedes and Alfa Romeo
It's literally the same case
Kevin Garcia
Fuck they even put up a statue of Steven Gerrard.
Joshua Ross
At no point in time throughout his career was Rooney the best player in the world.
Josiah Ward
I don't think its comparable, Messi hasn't won a major trophy with Argentina but there are plenty of Argentines who have. Fangio didn't represent his country directly in anything, there wasn't any World Cup of motorsport AFAIK.
Adam Edwards
wonder how that happened
Jaxson Thompson
This is the moment you realize Argentina has won the same number of trophies as England since 1993.
Bentley Hall
international football is alive and well
Landon Bailey
...
Thomas Perry
just
Carson Murphy
>on alternating years
>Messi has literally been the best since 2009
Brody Roberts
TSUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUu
Samuel Nguyen
is this the most retarded country ever?
Jose Phillips
No, that's Spain.
Luis Turner
>not ranking spain
Aiden Lopez
Now that they've been given the opportunity, will they update the statue to the more current, "punished" Messi?
Xavier Green
>having a statue of a player who hasn't won anything for your country
Mason Adams
TSUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU
Owen Miller
can you make the statue's missing parts grow back with growth hormone?
Tyler Nelson
Should have made it out of cast bronze, you can hurt that.
Henry Murphy
This lol, fucking losers
Logan Sanders
>but presumably there are better Argentines who deserve a statue in BA.
you'd think so but . . .
Kayden Brown
They should have made it out of bronze.
James Martin
>Lived and played club football in Spain since he was 12
>hasn't won anything significant with Argentina
There's no doubt he's one of the best footballers ever but is there any real reason for him to be considered an Argentine legend?
Jackson Myers
>muffled tsuing noises were reported from the scene of crime
Joseph Morgan
>Auto
typical 3rd world craftsmanship
doesn't even look like him ffs
Charles Long
Just give it some hgh and it'll be back to stature
Michael Cooper
Underrated post
Noah Perez
It was Bart.
Ethan Ross
(YOU)