GRAND BOURG, Argentina, Sept 5 (Reuters) - High school students in Argentina pieced together a massive mural of soccer superstar Lionel Messi out of thousands of recycled plastic bottle caps, with a video of the work of art shared widely online. But love for Messi seems to loom even larger. The new mural fills the floor of an open-air high school courtyard in the Grand Bourg neighbourhood, just outside the capital Buenos Aires. Sebastian Ramirez, a teacher at the school, posted a video clip on social media that went viral summing up a widely-held assessment of Messi's legacy. Video of the mural's making showed dozens of children hunched over a colour-coded design and boxes of bottle caps scattered around.

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Persons: Lionel Messi, Messi, Sebastian Ramirez, Javier Milei, Pope Francis, Juan Bustamente, David Alire Garcia, Peter Rutherford Organizations: Thomson Locations: BOURG, Argentina, Argentine, Grand Bourg, Buenos Aires, Qatar, American