“Today, at one of the road checkpoints, the police seized our documents, cameras, telephones, and escorted us to the police station. The first interrogations were tense: it is a country at war and spies or saboteurs are suspected.
“Until one of the policemen saw the passports of my Argentine colleagues and among a lot of words in Ukrainian, he said two that we understood ‘Messi’ and ‘Maradona’. That’s where everything changed. Our great cameraman Juan Zamudio showed that he has a tattoo of Diego Maradona in the calf.”
Panizza added: “It’s so big that a picture of Messi helped us get out of a police station in Ukraine. Thank you for this photo and for being Argentine.”
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