Argentine tattooists swamped by demand for Messi tributes

After a night of revelry, many flocked to the city’s tattoo parlours to commission designs depicting Messi, the team’s star player who led Argentina to a third World Cup win.

Argentina’s World Cup win turned Buenos Aires into a massive street party, tattoo artists have been hard at work inking the image of Lionel Messi on the bodies of fans paying tribute to the man who has come to rival the legend of the country’s other soccer god, Diego Maradona.