Lionel Messi gets a hero's welcome across Washington

The fence dividing the superstar from his superfans was tall, thick, metal -- and flexible. "If we pull two of the bars wide, I bet I can fit through," one of the fans said as he looked onto the soccer field. On the other side of the bars stood one of the world's greatest athletes. Lionel Messi, hero of Barcelona and Argentina, four-time world player of the year, living proof that soccer is a sport and an art, here in D.C. for the first time in his career.