✨LodestaR✨

“Hope is the feather that reminds us that we have wings” ♍️ @chelseafc @lakers 💛#BYHISGRACE #MESSI🐐

[✨LodestaR✨ @Nanachey]

People really be thinking because I don’t flaunt my wealth then I’m really that broke, smh. As at right now, I have 3,000 naira in my account that belongs to me, no be say person borrow me, na me get am. I can decide to buy a house with it or get myself a small Benz 🤷🏽‍♂️

[B/R Football @brfootball]

Lionel Messi's international career with Argentina has been nothing but dominant 🐐🇦🇷

[I B R A H I M @98hi9]

ترك بيليه لعشاقه غصة عدم تحقيق دوري أبطال أوروبا

ترك كريستيانو رونالدو لعشاقه غصة عدم تحقيق كأس العالم

ترك مارادونا لعشاقه غصة عدم تحقيق كوبا أمريكا ودوري أبطال أوروبا

أما ميسي… فلم يترك أي فراغ في مسيرته

حقق كأس العالم، وكوبا أمريكا، والفيناليسيما، وذهبية الأولمبياد، ودوري الأبطال، والدوريات والكؤوس المحلية، إلى جانب الكرة الذهبية، وجائزة الأفضل، والحذاء الذهبي، وسجلًا فرديًا يصعب تكراره

مسيرة مكتملة… ولذلك انتهى الجدل منذ أن اكتملت كل صفحاتها.

#messi
#Argentina

[✨LodestaR✨ @Nanachey]

@footballontnt TNT sports be like “no shades intended” but still go ahead throwing shades 😂😂😂

[Adika @Adikastakes]

If you celebrating Messi crying tonight, just know that you celebrating a 39 year old MLS player coming to World Cup and outperforming all the big football superstars in their prime. Messi there is nothing to cry about, you did 1 million times more than any Messi fan thought you’ll do in this World Cup. Thank you for everything the Greatest of all time ❤️

[Appie Culé @appiecule]

Messi broke down in tears today—not just once, but over and over again. Every chance he got, the tears came. After the defeat. While receiving the silver medal. There wasn’t a single moment when he could hold them back.

At first glance, you might think he was crying because Argentina lost the World Cup. But the truth is, those were farewell tears. He was saying goodbye to everything the World Cup has meant to him. This was the final chapter of a journey that began 20 years ago.

He wasn’t crying because of the pressure of losing. He had already won the World Cup and completed football’s greatest achievement. What he was experiencing was something even harder—the moment of saying goodbye. Goodbye, football. Goodbye, World Cup. The journey is over.

History will remember that Argentina reached two consecutive World Cup finals in the Messi era, led by Messi at 35 and again at 39. The greatest stories aren’t always about how they end, but about the journey they leave behind.

Messi is a legend and the greatest there will ever be. 🐐

[B/R Football @brfootball]

🐐—Second-most goals in history (21)
🐐—Most wins in history (23)
🐐—Longest scoring streak (9)
🐐—Oldest hat trick scorer (38)
🐐—Joint-most tournament appearances (6)
🐐—Argentina’s top scorer at World Cup
🐐—Most goals from outside the area (7)
🐐—Most World Cup appearances (34)
🐐—Most appearances as captain (27)
🐐—Most assists in knockout phase (10)
🐐—Only man to score in group stage, Ro16, quarterfinals, semifinals and final (2022)
🐐—World Cup winner 🏆

Lionel Messi says farewell to the 2026 World Cup 🥺

[✨LodestaR✨ @Nanachey]

I’m at a point in my life where before I argue or talk to you about football, I’ll ask you a question, “who’s the better football player between Messi and Ronaldo” once you say Ronaldo, I’m never arguing or talking to you about football again!!

[Mod @CFCMods]

The best part about this World Cup run is that in every single game Lionel Messi gave all his haters hope and took it away in dramatic fashion, I love it.

[✨LodestaR✨ @Nanachey]

@piersmorgan Have you seen him now 😹😹😹.. clown 🤡

[✨LodestaR✨ @Nanachey]

@folasanwo @mc_lively_ no get sense normal normal, I don know that one since IG, na @femibakre own shock me

[✨LodestaR✨ @Nanachey]

@femibakre Haaa… so you sef no get sense like this? Abi na parody account 😳😳

[✨LodestaR✨ @Nanachey]

@Mautiin01 @donjames006 If I sabi you, na waste of sabi-ing be that 🤮😂

[✨LodestaR✨ @Nanachey]

@donjames006 @Mautiin01 Person wey u dey respect na mumu oo… carry your respect go give better person abeg 😂😂😂

[✨LodestaR✨ @Nanachey]

@rioferdy5

[✨LodestaR✨ @Nanachey]

@rioferdy5 Because you’ve been watching rugby, not football… hypocrite!!

[✨LodestaR✨ @Nanachey]

@itsSh0la Omo ode 😂😂

[Appie Culé @appiecule]

Now Cristiano Ronaldo has bad teammates, a bad coach, and suddenly it’s all the system’s fault?

Isn’t that exactly what happened to Messi? Yet back then you called him a bottler and spent years tearing him apart to the point that he retired from international football in 2016.

So now there’s context? Now there are excuses?

Cristiano Ronaldo is a legend who never needed a World Cup or a European Championship to prove his greatness in the first place.

Yet in 2016, none of you could stop talking because your idol had just won Euro 2016. Wasn’t it him who said that you have to win a trophy with your national team, otherwise you can’t be considered the greatest? A pretty obvious shot at Messi.

Fine then. Let’s use your own standards.

Messi won the Copa América. He won the World Cup. He has more Ballon d’Ors, more FIFA Best awards, and better overall career numbers.

Weren’t those the superficial standards you’ve been using against everyone else for years?

Messi is the greatest of all time—and not because of those achievements alone—but now it’s time to admit it. He didn’t leave a single argument standing against him. Even by your own superficial criteria, he won every single one.

This is the greatest checkmate in football history. It’s like playing chess against someone who unknowingly makes all the right moves for you instead of themselves. That’s exactly what Ronaldo fans ended up doing.

[JJ. Omojuwa @Omojuwa]

Messi played over 120 minutes in a gruelling encounter, scored one, helped create two others, and somehow there are fans disputing his Man of the Match.

The same crowd that applauded an honorary one handed to a passenger with 25 touches, in a game won only after he was removed.

Messi is where he is because the world has always asked more of him than it ever asked of any footballer, dead or alive. He keeps answering.

[WhoScored @WhoScored]

🇦🇷 Lionel Messi at this World Cup so far:

🥇 Most goals (7)
🥇 Most xG overperformance (+3.34)
🥇 Most shots (24)
🥇 Most shots on target (15)
🥇 Most shots per game (6)
🥇 Most % of team’s goals (64%)
🥇 Highest WhoScored rating (8.96)

[✨LodestaR✨ @Nanachey]

@Blue_Footy No be only 3 more world cups, na 5 he go play 😂😂… you think this kind of longevity is for everyone? Dey play 😂