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Al Majalla pays homage to one of football's greatest magicians, Diego Maradona, who transcended boundaries and proved that a football was a moon whose light could touch the world.

Ismail Ghazaly 16 December 2023

Fermin Robilotte, 27, gets a tattoo of Argentina's soccer star Lionel Messi, after Argentina's soccer national team won FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, December 21, 2022. REUTERS/Tomas Cuesta NO RESALES. NO ARCHIVES

Argentine Tattooists Swamped By Demand For Messi Tributes

Since 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…

22 December 2022

Argentina's Lionel Messi celebrates at the end of the World Cup semifinal soccer match between Argentina and Croatia at the Lusail Stadium in Lusail, Qatar, Tuesday, Dec. 13, 2022. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin)

Messi Carries The Weight of Argentina into World Cup Final

As Lionel Messi approaches his second and likely last World Cup final, the stakes could hardly be higher. The same goes for Argentina after more than 30 years of disappointment since it last won…

AP 16 December 2022

The shirt worn by Argentinian soccer player Diego Maradona in the 1986 World Cup quarter final against England is displayed ahead of it being auctioned by Sotheby's, in London, Britain, April 20, 2022. REUTERS/Toby Melville

Maradona's 1986 World Cup Final Shirt Returns To Argentina

Thirty-six years after Diego Maradona helped Argentina beat Germany to lift the World Cup in Mexico City, the shirt he wore in the game has returned to his homeland. Germany's Lothar Matthaeus,…

19 October 2022

People exchange soccer World Cup stickers at Parque Rivadavia in Buenos Aires, Argentina September 18, 2022. REUTERS/Agustin Marcarian

In Land of Maradona and Messi, Fans Jostle For World Cup Stickers

In convenience stores around Argentina, kids - and their parents - are caught up in a new craze: the hunt for soccer World Cup stickers that have driven the already sport-mad country into a frenzy…

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