Soccer/Crazy Argentine Farmer Grows Giant Portrait Of Lionel Messi On 124 Acres Of Corn

Soccer superstar Lionel Messi cemented Argentina's status as a national hero this year when he won the World Cup. There are also various ways to pay tribute to Messi across Argentina, including one Argentinian farmer who is the most crazy, and he has carefully designed a corn field and planted a 124-acre (about 151,797 pong) portrait of Messi.

The farmer's name is Maximiliano Spinazze. "Now that they are world champions, I am happy that I can pay tribute to them through my own expertise," he said. "I looked at the portrait of Macy with a beard and calculated the seeds needed to plant a corn field, and the hair and beard would be especially large."

He enlisted the help of agricultural engineer Carlos Faricelli to add a computer program to the planter so that it knew how much seed was being sown per square meter, ensuring that Messi's features were in contrast, giving the corn a more accurate picture of Messi.