Argentina world champion: a man from Cordoba got his first tattoo with Lionel Messi’s Cup and added the third star to his shirt

In a football country, after every cup won, a tattoo arrives that immortalizes him. Nobody imposes it, but it is as if it were implicit among the fans. And the consecration of the Argentina national team in Qatar 2022 is not only the exception to the rule, but also the most awaited. It is that he carries with him the image of Lionel Messi lifting the World Cup.

Tattoo artists across the country agree their cell phones have been crashing with texts since Sunday at 4pm, when the albiceleste was crowned World Cup champion.

The orders are similar to each other and have a clear common denominator: the Argentine 10 with the Cup. The design varies according to whether they want to caress it, kiss it, look at it or lift it.

But while everyone wishes and begs for a breakthrough as soon as possible, there is one Argentine who has become one the first in the country to tattoo the image of victory.

We are talking about Tomás, a Cordovan who, a few hours after the heartbreaking victory against France, went to the studio of Andrés Baiardi, in the San Carlos district, to make his wish come true.

“We came out champions yesterday, we wrote at 6:30 with Andrés he told me ‘let’s go to the club’ and i just left. We sacrificed the festivities a bit, the moment of fury, but well, we had to leave immortalized. I had a shift for April,” the man said in conversation with local media El Doce who had been tattooed for several hours.

And he added: “I’ve had the idea of ​​tattooing Messi since we won the Copa América. Since we lost the 2014 final, it didn’t depend on the result. But I was waiting because obviously I was very excited that it was with the Cup. so I chose that image. So when Andrés wrote to me, I abandoned everyone and got in the car,” she said.

The tattoo is of Lionel Messi kissing the World Cup with the Argentina national team shirt. The detail is that in the portrait, the AFA scudetto already has three stars.

“The third star had already been won, so it wasn’t a lie. I wanted it complete. I am very happy and grateful to Andrés for allowing me to be the first” Tomás said.

Andrés, the tattoo artist, told how his orders increased after the consecration of La Scaloneta in Qatar.

“I was lucky to make the first Messi with the Copa América and the first now. I have many requests, my wife came to help me today because there is no way I can answer. Everyone loves Messi“, commented.

In this sense he revealed the reason why he awarded first place to Tomás: “The man told me that I don’t care if we were champions, that I want to do the same thing to him. So yesterday his cell phone was like this and I told him let’s go to the club, I had everything ready because I had also worked on Saturday”.

And speaking of the preparation he added: “I arrived in two minutes, I set the table, I chose the photo I liked best, I contrasted it, I gave him three photos to choose from, I placed it on the leg and we said ‘that’s it’. I started at 7 and before 12 it was finished”.

“There is still room to sign“, underlined the Cordovan reporter in the note, asking him in which area he preferred the autograph.

Tomás replied like any fan: “I don’t care. If you sign me on my forehead, I’ll get a tattoo on my forehead.”