Post by account_disabled on Jan 10, 2024 4:08:17 GMT -5
The city of Kazan, site of the 2018 Russia World Cup quarterfinal match between Brazil and Belgium, welcomed the Canarinha team this Friday with a large-scale graffiti of its great star, Neymar.
That of the star is the third mural in honor of a footballer that appears in the streets of the capital of the Tatarstan region, in which graffiti of the Portuguese Cristiano Ronaldo and the Argentine Lionel Messi have already been immortalized.
Kazan Mayor Ilsur Metshi said last year that Binance App Users Data there were "a large number of locations" in the city where local artists could paint portraits of well-known players ahead of the World Cup.
Cristiano Ronaldo was the first to appear painted in the picturesque streets of the Russian city, in the summer of 2017, just before the Confederations Cup match. On that occasion, the town welcomed the five-time Ballon d'Or winner with a three-story mural in front of the luxurious Ramada Hotel, where the Portuguese team stayed for their matches in Kazan.
Those in charge of painting Neymar's graffiti were the same ones who drew Cristiano and Messi's
The same artists who painted the portrait of the Real Madrid star were in charge of drawing Messi's almost 12 months later, already in the middle of the World Cup.
When Argentina traveled to the Tatar capital to play the World Cup round of 16 match against France, the officials noticed that Ronaldo's portrait could be directly seen from the Albiceleste 's hotel rooms , so they had graffiti of Messi painted. .
The turn now, at the gates of the quarterfinals of the tournament, is for Neymar, who is in Kazan with the canarinha to play their match against Belgium on the banks of the Volga River.
The mural has been painted this time in a different location, and from the Ramada it has moved to another official FIFA hotel, the Mirage.
The mayor's office has commissioned the same artists who painted Cristiano and Messi, both already out of the World Cup, to paint a portrait on the wall of the Brazilian number 10, the great candidate to dethrone the two dominators of world football during the last decade.
That of the star is the third mural in honor of a footballer that appears in the streets of the capital of the Tatarstan region, in which graffiti of the Portuguese Cristiano Ronaldo and the Argentine Lionel Messi have already been immortalized.
Kazan Mayor Ilsur Metshi said last year that Binance App Users Data there were "a large number of locations" in the city where local artists could paint portraits of well-known players ahead of the World Cup.
Cristiano Ronaldo was the first to appear painted in the picturesque streets of the Russian city, in the summer of 2017, just before the Confederations Cup match. On that occasion, the town welcomed the five-time Ballon d'Or winner with a three-story mural in front of the luxurious Ramada Hotel, where the Portuguese team stayed for their matches in Kazan.
Those in charge of painting Neymar's graffiti were the same ones who drew Cristiano and Messi's
The same artists who painted the portrait of the Real Madrid star were in charge of drawing Messi's almost 12 months later, already in the middle of the World Cup.
When Argentina traveled to the Tatar capital to play the World Cup round of 16 match against France, the officials noticed that Ronaldo's portrait could be directly seen from the Albiceleste 's hotel rooms , so they had graffiti of Messi painted. .
The turn now, at the gates of the quarterfinals of the tournament, is for Neymar, who is in Kazan with the canarinha to play their match against Belgium on the banks of the Volga River.
The mural has been painted this time in a different location, and from the Ramada it has moved to another official FIFA hotel, the Mirage.
The mayor's office has commissioned the same artists who painted Cristiano and Messi, both already out of the World Cup, to paint a portrait on the wall of the Brazilian number 10, the great candidate to dethrone the two dominators of world football during the last decade.
