The statue of Lionel Messi of Buenos Aires will not celebrate the pass to semifinals of the World-wide of Brazil with the fingers heaved. Some vandals have cut him the index finger of each hand. The sculpture, situated in the neighbourhood of the Recoleta, inmortaliza to the captain of the Argentinian selection raising the fingers skywards, characteristic shot of his celebrations of goal
The statue of Lionel Messi forms part of a homage to the idols of the history of the Argentinian football, made by the sculptor Fernando Pugliese, that consists of three figures: the one of the player of the Barça, one of Diego Maradona and another of Gabriel Batistuta. To the equal that the one of the Barcelona, the sculptures of Maradona raising the glass in the World-wide of 1986 and the one of Batistuta shouting after having marked a goal with Argentina also have received hits and breaks.
The statues had been inaugurated the previous week to the start of the World-wide of Brazil, by commission of the sportive channel "TyC Sports", and has been the same channel the one who has informed that the tasks of restoration began yesterday same.