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The neighborhood popularly known as La Bajada has turned into a sort of altar for Messi with murals and graffiti that praise the soccer star.

In La Bajada, residents are hopeful that if Messi wins on Sunday he will come back to his old home for a visit.

A new tour in the hometown of soccer super star Lionel Messi displays the modest neighborhood of La Bajada where he spent his time bicycling with friends, building forts out of branches and stones, playing hide and seek - and occasionally stealing lemons from a neighbor to make juice.

When he was a child in the modest neighborhood of La Bajada in his Argentine hometown of Rosario, he spent his time bicycling with friends, building forts out of branches and stones, playing hide and seek - and occasionally stealing lemons from a neighbor to make juice.

Its name is an amalgam of Spanish, Greek, and Latin, meaning “lizard from Bajada with forward-bending spines.”