Houston Dynamo players Franco Escobar and Ezequiel Ponce are both from Argentina and idolize Lionel Messi. Now, they get to play against him.

“I said I would get a tattoo in honor of the first title of the all-time best Messi with Argentina,” Cortez told her hundreds of thousands of social media followers. “Promise fulfilled.

Escobar, who already had a sleeve of tattoos on both arms, had been wanting ink of Messi for a while but was determined to wait until the Argentine superstar won his first World Cup. A couple ...

Escobar may even lift his shorts above his right thigh to show his personal tribute — a massive tattoo of Messi kissing ... The match will be Messi’s first against Houston.

With his loose-fitting shorts hanging down just above his knee, it’s tough to see how big of a Lionel Messi fan Franco Escobar truly is. Perhaps, if Escobar comes to a sudden enough stop when ...

Escobar may even lift his shorts above his right thigh to show his personal tribute — a massive tattoo of Messi kissing the World Cup trophy. “It's going to be something very beautiful for me ...