In my many years of watching football I have never ever seen fireworks that are representing the colors of a winning team in a tournament final. You can correct me if I'm wrong!
It would've been great if Yamal asked to sit down with him after the hug and have a little conversation. At least, that's how I imagined things would unfold. 😭🥹
🇦🇷 The hate against Messi came out of nowhere, and it has nothing to do with football.
Here's what's actually going on...
Messi lifted the World Cup in December 2022 and the entire planet lost its mind celebrating.
Three and a half years later, a chunk of the internet suddenly decided he's a villain.
Nothing on the pitch changed. Same guy, same career, twenty years of footage anyone can check in under a minute.
What changed is the feed. Villain edits started outperforming legend edits and the algorithm noticed.
A 2018 MIT study tracked 126,000 claims across 3 million X users. False stories spread six times faster than true ones and got retweeted 70% more often. Outrage simply beats accuracy at getting attention.
None of this needs a single big lie either. Illusory truth effect: see a claim enough times and it starts feeling true even when you know it's false, and the effect survives fact checks.
Football is basically the most documented thing on earth. Every match, every angle, every ref decision, all archived. The narrative still won anyway.
If the algorithm can flip public opinion on the most watched athlete alive, it can flip it on anyone with no footage to fall back on.
Source: @LeoMessiFanZone, @therosieum / Writer: Sol
@Sgadi28 He was given an opportunity to answer a question that millions of Kaizer Chiefs fans are asking themselves and he started waffling and marketing a game and kits instead. A clear epitome of how they are more intrested in the business side of things than anything else.
F1 “We will be there, he disrespected the badge. He must ask CTC”
F2 “It was a joke, you must be miserable in life to be offended by that”
Some Argentina 🇦🇷 fans 🤷🏾♂️
Lionel Messi is the exact reason you should live solely on your own terms.
The man speaks ill of no one. He disrespects neither teammates nor rivals. He is the best to ever do his craft. Yet he has dedicated haters. If ever a man (let alone a player) should have had no haters, it is Messi. Still, on account of nothing but his matchless success, he commands a horde of them.
Do what thou wilt. People will talk regardless.
A life lived minding what people will say is a wasted life.
Tus lágrimas son las nuestras, Capitán 👑🇦🇷
Nos diste las alegrías más grandes de nuestras vidas. Gracias por la entrega, por la magia y por dar la vida hasta el último segundo 🙌
¡Te amamos para siempre, Leo! 🩵🤍
this is when Messi couldn't hold back his tears after hearing his chants. And not just Argentina fans, even Spain fans were chanting his name. This is what he has achieved. People will forever love you GOAT 🐐🩵
I remember Chiefs refuting some lie I think by SL and people said Chiefs likes attention, why are they doing that. Their club is doing the same now and its celebrations 😂
We rise 💯✅
A hard-fought 1-1 draw against Al-Kholood from Saudi Arabia in our second pre-season game in Spain. 🇪🇸⚽️
Another valuable test. Another step forward.
The Kingdom Rises. 👑💛