Sports desk: On the surface, Laguna Larga looks no different from any other small town in Argentina.
It has an agricultural heart, the main square, two petrol stations, a school, a museum, and two football clubs.
But it is probably the only place in the country where Lionel Messi comes second.
“This is Paulo Dybala's town,” reads a giant billboard on Ruta Nueve, the road that connects Argentina's three main cities – Cordoba, Rosario, and Buenos Aires.
It was a special birthday gift to the 25-year-old Juventus forward two years ago and symbolizes the borders of his kingdom.
Here, no-one would ever use his surname. Only outsiders say, Dybala. To Laguna Larga's 7,500 inhabitants, he is Paulo.
This is where he grew up, the youngest of three brothers, in a town otherwise best known for a failed bank robbery that involved 20 hostages, in which gunmen seized the police station and disguised themselves as officers before things went badly wrong.
It is a town split in two by the main road running through it, with a football club on either side, Sportivo and Newell's.
Dybala had a parent from both halves of the divide; his mother's family supported Sportivo, while his father, Adolfo, and grandfather, Boleslaw, were Newell's fans.
