LOS CONDORES, Argentina — Lionel Messi has been immortalised in Argentina in tributes ranging from tattoos to murals after leading the national team to win the soccer World Cup. Now his face can be seen from the heavens too — on a specially designed corn field. The field in Los Condores in central Cordoba province was sown using an algorithm...
The face of Argentine football star Lionel Messi is depicted in a corn field sown with a special algorithm to plant seeds in a certain pattern to create a huge visual image when the corn plants grow, in Los Condores, on the outskirts of Cordoba, Argentina on Jan 15, 2023.LOS CONDORES, Argentina — Lionel Messi has been immortalised in Argentina in tributes ranging from tattoos to murals after leading the national team to win the soccer World Cup.
"For me Messi is unbeatable," said Maximiliano Spinazze — the crop farmer who planted the unusual crop formation as a celebration of the team's victory, their first World Cup since Diego Maradona led the team in 1986.The soccer-mad South American country is a major agricultural producer, the third largest global exporter of corn. Farming is its main export driver, though football may be its top claim to fame.
"I had the idea to make a code that goes in the seeders with Messi's face as a tribute," he said, adding he had then made the code available for any farmers "who dared to plant it."
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