Messi has already won the 2026 World Cup, getting the trophy will just be an added bonus.
-He's the oldest outfield player to ever play in a World Cup final.
-Holds the record for most matches in World Cup history.
-As a captain, Messi also holds the record for the most matches in World Cup history.
-The World Cup all-time top-scorer (controversial).
-Messi officially holds the record for most goal contributions in World Cup history.
-He's the first player in football history to ever feature in six different World Cups;
- The second player in history to play in three WC finals.
-Impressively the only player to register at least one assist in six different World Cups (2006 to 2026).
-The first player in football history to register over ten career assists at the World Cup.
-He has Most Player of the Match awards in history.
-The first captain to lead his team to three World Cup finals.
-The most World Cup appearances by a player.
-One of the very few players in history to reach a WC final back-to-back.
-The first player in history to complete "nine dribbles and assisted two goals against England" and "the first player on record (from 1966) to do so in a single FIFA World Cup knockout game".
-Arguably the first to start in three World Cup finals.
-He is Argentina's leading World Cup scorer
-Player with the most World Cup wins.
-Player with the most minutes played.
-The oldest player in World Cup history to score a hat-trick (though controversial).
-First ever to register a goal in six consecutive World Cup matches.
-He holds the record for the most goals scored from outside the box in World Cup history; Long-range goals.
-Additionally, Messi holds the record for scoring against the most different national teams in World Cup history.
-He's Argentina's youngest and oldest World Cup goalscorer.
To the little boy from Rosario 🇦🇷,
One who was once too quiet, too fragile, too weak, too small - with a body that betrayed him but with dreams strong enough to power through.
The little boy from Rosario who left home before he was ready, burdened with the hopes of millions before he was old enough to carry his own.
To that little boy, I write as tonight might be your final dance. 🇦🇷 🇪🇸
You conquered Europe, conquered every record that they said would never fall - to the world, you were an undisputed genius but everytime you put on the Argentine camiseta, he felt like a curse trailed you.
One final lost after another. What mattered to you the most, to bring joy to the cot that cradled you was constantly out of your reach.
Every defeat you suffered kept reminding us, that maybe, you're just as human as we are.
Every time you cried from the bench with swollen feet, we watched and are reminded, maybe you're just as human.
You retired and we thought your story was over - we could still make peace with the joy you've given us from club spectacle.
Like the Phoenix that you are, you rose from the ashes that was designed to bury you - you walked back into storms that was orchestrated to sink you.
My dear little boy from Rosario 🇦🇷,
you walked back to the pitch - fingers pointed to your grandmother who first believed, doubled the joy you've always brought us, fulfilled your lifelong dreams, made new records and broke your own records.
I'm not even Argentine but you've spurred me to permanently chant:
"Soy hincha de la Selección,
La aliento con el corazón
Ganamos la tercera con Lionel
Queremos ser campeones otra vez"
Tonight is not just another final, Muchacho. Tonight is not just about the hunt for another trophy, Lionel.
Tonight is about the compression of a 2-decade story line from 2006 to 2026.
All the tears, heartbreaks, all the doubts & how you repeatedly resurrected with no points left to prove.
We might not have existed in the times of Shakespeare, Alexander the Great, Michangelo, Plato, Isaac Newton - but it's been the absolute privilege of our lives to have existed while you did, the absolute honor of our lives to have been your audience.
Long after stadiums rot into the ground in silence, and goals get forgotten - we will always remember how you made us feel.
One day when we're all frail and rottening in our grandpa era, our grandchildren will feel electric surges just from touching us - and it will be difficult for us to explain that it was your gift to us 70 years back.
Maybe your last dance, maybe one more dance - but we're privileged to be dancing with you again, Mi Capitan.
🐐 🇦🇷
After Hagar fled from Sarah for maltreating her out of jealousy, she went to the wilderness where God appeared to her and blessed her because the child she was carrying was a seed of Abraham. After God blessed her, she called him ‘El Roi’ - meaning, the God who sees me.
Prior to that time, no one had ever seen her. Her only identity was Sarah’s hand maid. Sarah saw her as a maid. Abraham saw her as Sarah’s maid. People saw her as Sarah’s maid. But for the first time in her life, someone saw her. Someone saw her enough to bless her. That is also the very first time someone gave God a name - El Roi.
I don’t know what you’re going through but I know many of you are at your lowest point and nobody sees you. I pray God sees you. El Roi ❤️
the best thing you can do for yourself is actively increase your surface area for luck to hit you. go outside, try new cafes, museums, events, take a new route home, speak to people, ask questions, side quest. the more you do, the more serendipity and synchronicity will find you.
I'm not responsible for your lack of friends or the poverty of your friends. If you like don't make friends and build yourself into good circles. Be using people's friendship for Twitter clout and laugh. I like my circles and I'm proud of it.
Your belief or disbelief does not change people's reality. After tweeting, you'll face your reality and I'll face mine.
Stop asking why it’s taking so long. Some things aren’t delayed but they’re being built properly. A house doesn’t rise overnight and neither does a man.
You compare your chapter one to somebody else’s chapter ten and call yourself behind. You’re not behind. You’re just early in your own story. The pressure you feel right now is the same pressure that shapes everything worth having …diamonds, muscle, character. None of it comes easy and none of it should.
Keep showing up. Keep refusing to quit quietly. The version of you that makes it out doesn’t exist yet but he’s being formed in exactly this season you want to skip.
Trust the process. Respect the timing. Your time is coming, not because you got lucky, but because you refused to stop.
Good morning and have a great day guys👏
Argentina had won two World Cup (in 1978 and 1986) before Messi's debut, and had won about 14 Copa America titles. It took the national almost 40 years to win another trophy, fourty good years in 2022. Now despite all Messi's accomplishments since his debut, that is, 35 titles in 17 seasons, Messi also won his first major international title in 2021 which was the Copa America, taking 16 years into his career, and almost 17 years to add the World Cup trophy to his collection.
Now during his years of Int'l trophy drought he was heavily criticized even by Argentines, especially after missing the crucial PK in 2016.
Messi lost four international finals back to back, almost quit the team, and had to struggle to win his first Copa America and World Cup, but all of a sudden it was rigged for him? Be serious.
Egejurum Onyedikachi shares his experience winning the gold medal at the International STEM Olympiad Grand Final in Rome.
He is the best in the world in the Mathematics Primary Category.
He is a genius.
To all of you yelling “satire”
The entire idea of satire as a literary device is to use humor/be entertaining while also criticizing and exposing the issue at the base of the content.
Portraying “akara selling” as a lucrative business where you’re taking payment in solana and eth, patronizing Polanco and shopping at hf etc.
where is the said “satire” that you all are screaming?