Chris.

⭐ Football Lover ⭐ Barcelona ⭐ Lionel Messi

[Chris. @ChrisIdogar]

Messi dey for everybody. 💙♥️

[Manchester United @ManUtd]

When Wes Brown played against Lionel Messi 💭

Watch more of the discussion on our #FIFAWorldCup edition of Influencers 📲

[Chris. @ChrisIdogar]

@nwanze_desmond @sportingking365 😭😭😭😭😭

[Johnny Cortes @johnnycortes]

🚨 Real Madrid legend Clarence Seedorf on Messi’s hat-trick masterclass vs Algeria:

“You can’t stop Messi.” 🐐

“When I said Messi is still the best player in the world and the best player at this World Cup… I meant it.”

Even Real Madrid legends know who the GOAT is 🔥🐐

[Lekan Olayinka @lekan_olayinka1]

Let me do a little football argument today, Mr Bayo:

You are free to love Ronaldo, but you cannot make an argument that he is greater than Messi.

What metrics do you want to measure with? Messi beats Ronaldo across the board.

But let’s flip their records. Would Messi still be greater than Cristiano Ronaldo if:

Messi had 35 trophies, while Ronaldo had 46, the highest in the world?

Messi had five Ballon d’Ors, while Ronaldo had eight?

Messi had 8 domestic titles, while Ronaldo had 13+?

Messi had just the Euros and two Nations Leagues, while Ronaldo had a World Cup, two Copas, one Olympic medal, and one Finalissima?

Messi had 2 FIFA The Best awards, while Ronaldo had 3?

Messi had 4 Golden Shoes, while Ronaldo had 6?

Messi had 0 World Cup Golden Balls, while Ronaldo had 2?

Messi had 0 World Cup Golden Boots, while Ronaldo had 1?

Messi had 960+ goals, while Ronaldo had 900+, but also the most assists, dribbles, and chances created, while playing two fewer years than him?

Messi had 5 Champions League titles, while Ronaldo had 4?

Messi had 0 Laureus Sports Awards, while Ronaldo had 1, the only footballer to win it?

I could go on and on. But even in that scenario, Ronaldo fans would still not concede that Messi is better.

But that is the reality we have here.

The whole of football knows Messi is both better and greater.

Ronaldo’s teammates attest to this. Messi’s teammates attest to this.

Top coaches in the world attest to it:

Pep Guardiola
Jürgen Klopp
Arsène Wenger
José Mourinho
Etc.

Legends of football attest to it, and their careers attest to it.

Messi is 39, and he is still playing with the highest creative and playmaking responsibility on the pitch.

Ronaldo shifted from the wings to the box as early as 2015–2018.

Now they are both at the twilight of their careers, and we see one still actively dictating play, while the other has become a shadow of his former self.

Messi is better and greater than Ronaldo in all regards.

[Squawka @Squawka]

Lionel Messi topped the scoring charts on MD1. 🐐

At 38 years and 357 days, he became the oldest player to score a World Cup hat-trick and drew level with Miroslav Klose as the competition's all-time top scorer (16).

[ESPN FC @ESPNFC]

Even Haaland, who had an incredible performance of his own today, was in awe of Messi's legendary performance 😂

[SportyTV @SportyTV]

Leo Messi historical hat-trick made him the all-time top scorer of the World Cup 🤯🇦🇷

There are simply no words 😶🔟

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[Chris. @ChrisIdogar]

@Squawka Update this.

His hat trick goal was outside the box, no?

[433 @433]

𝐓𝐇𝐈𝐒 𝐈𝐒 𝐌𝐀𝐃𝐍𝐄𝐒𝐒. 🤯

Messi’s influence is on another level 😮‍💨

[Chris. @ChrisIdogar]

Can't win in court, so let's try UEFA.

[Fabrizio Romano @FabrizioRomano]

🚨 OFFICIAL: Real Madrid statement on Negreira case.

Real Madrid C. F. communicates that, in relation to the so-called 'Negreira Case', he has presented to UEFA a letter addressed to its disciplinary bodies.

In this letter, the club has informed UEFA of the existence of relevant evidence that conclusively reinforces the indications already known from the beginning about the existence of long-term payments, opaque and lacking any verifiable justification, made by the F. C Barcelona to the one who was vice president of the Technical Committee of Referees of the Royal Spanish Football Federation, José María Enríquez Negreira, through different corporate structures.

Real Madrid emphasizes that these facts constitute, from the perspective of sports disciplinary law, a systemic risk of maximum gravity for the integrity of competitions, by evidencing the existence of a structure of undue influence on the arbitration system, incompatible with the essential principles of competitive equality, neutrality, impartiality and unpredictability of the sports result.

In this context, Real Madrid has urged the immediate resumption of the disciplinary file initiated at the time by UEFA, considering it unacceptable that this situation has been prolonged over time, since its persistence seriously compromises the credibility of football, its institutions and its leaders, so it demands a firm, exemplary and immediate response in the sports field, independent of the future of the ongoing judicial proceedings.

Therefore, our club asks UEFA, in the exercise of its own, autonomous and independent competence, to adopt the disciplinary and restorative measures that are appropriate in order to guarantee the integrity, transparency and proper functioning of the competitions, without this implying, in any case, replacing the function of the jurisdictional bodies of the State or anticipating a criminal qualification of the facts.

In this sense, Real Madrid, in person in the ongoing criminal proceedings as a private accusation, will exercise, as it has been doing since its inception, the actions that correspond at each procedural moment.

Real Madrid reaffirms its commitment to the defense of the essential values of sport and will continue to promote as many actions as necessary to ensure that events of this nature do not go unpunished.

[FC Barcelona @FCBarcelona]

LEGEND 🐐

[Premier League @premierleague]

From one goal machine to another 🤖⚽️

[Squawka @Squawka]

Lionel Messi has scored more World Cup goals after turning 35 (10) than these players have in their career:

◉ Cristiano Ronaldo (8)
◉ Rivaldo (8)
◉ Harry Kane (8)
◉ Diego Maradona (8)
◉ Thierry Henry (6)

🤯

[Sofascore Football @Sofascore]

🥇 | Indescribable

Lionel Messi at the #FIFAWorldCup since 1966:

• Joint-most goals (16)
• Joint-most assists (8)
• Most goal involvements (24)
• Most goals from outside the box (6)
• Most big chances created (16)
• Most key passes (77)
• Most successful dribbles (112)

We might never see another like him. 🐐

[Guinness World Records @GWR]

Lionel Messi is quite good at football, isn’t he?

[Chris. @ChrisIdogar]

@vermilionpixie 🤡🤡🤡🤡

[Chris. @ChrisIdogar]

100M, take it and run.

[Reshad Rahman @ReshadRahman]

🚨 JUST IN: Al Hilal is once again targeting Raphinha. @geglobo #Transfers 🇸🇦🔎

ℹ️ The player recently said in an interview that he wants to fulfill his contract at Barcelona (valid until 2028).

[Selección Argentina in English @AFASeleccionEN]

What time does Argentina make its World Cup debut? 🇦🇷⏰

[WhoScored @WhoScored]

🇪🇸 Pedri among all players in the World Cup so far:

◉ 95 - Most touches in the final third
◉ 76 - Most final third passes attempted
◉ 18 - Most penalty area entries
◉ 11 - Most crosses
◉ 7 - Most corners into the box
◉ 6 - Most successful penalty area entries
◉ 6 - Most possession won in attacking third
◉ 3 - Most attempted through balls
◉ 2 - Most accurate through balls

[adidas @adidas]

one last dance 🐐