Soccer Football - World Cup - Kazan, Russia - June 29, 2018 - A mural of Lionel Messi is painted on a building next to the Ramada hotel where the Argentina team will stay before their last 16 match versus France. REUTERS/Pilar Olivares
KAZAN, Russia (Reuters) - Kazan artists worked through the night on Friday painting a mural of Argentina's Lionel Messi to match one of Portugal's Cristiano Ronaldo on a building opposite, saving the blushes of the World Cup host city.
The three-storey portrait of Ronaldo was painted on a building behind the Ramada Hotel to welcome the five-times World Player of the Year when Portugal played in the capital of Tatarstan in the 2017 Confederations Cup.
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