Jacaranda
trees encircling the stadium of Club Atlético Newell's Old Boys in Rosario, Argentina. The club was founded in November 1903, and is named after
Isaac Newell
, from the English county of Kent, one of the pioneers of Argentine football. Lionel Messi was a star junior at the club before he emigrated to Barcelona.
From an assignment for the New York Times Magazine on the agony of being Lionel Messi, loved and loathed in his Argentinian homeland.
