What’s it like being Tim Payne? #AllWhites fullback's first interview since social media boom shows where his focus is ahead of @FIFAWorldCup
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New Zealand Tim Payne had under 5,000 followers less than two weeks ago before being shouted out by El Scarso ...
He just hit 5M followers on Instagram 📈
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From the pitch to the palace 👑⚽️
Tim Payne, All Whites warrior and NZ football legend, now immortalized as a heroic sculpture inside Caesar’s Palace. Long live the king of the beautiful game! 🇳🇿
What do you think — does he deserve his own wing in the palace?
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From one viral video to 1.5 million followers🤯
Argentinian influencer Valen Scarsini set out to find the least-known player at the World Cup and landed on New Zealand defender Tim Payne.
After encouraging fans to support him online, Tim’s Instagram exploded from just 4,500 followers to 1.5 MILLION📈
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It just keeps going 😳📈 At this rate, Tim Payne’s will have more followers than New Zealand’s population!
The Wellington Phoenix star ticked over the four million mark, an 85006% increase in less than a week 🚀
New Zealand footballer Tim Payne went from 4,000 to 1.7 million Instagram followers in 3 days after an Argentine creator named him the “least-known World Cup player” and urged fans to follow him
He hit 1 million within a day of the original video
2 days ago, Argentinian influencer Valen Scarsini set out to find the least known footballer playing at the upcoming World Cup.
His answer turned out to be New Zealand defender, Tim Payne, who had just 4,000 followers on Instagram at the time.
Valen then encouraged all of his fans to show Tim some love, by liking and commenting on all his posts.
Tim Payne now has 1.2 MILLION followers on Instagram as we speak.
What a insane story…👏😅
⚽️🌍📈 𝗟𝗔 𝗜𝗡𝗖𝗥𝗘𝗜́𝗕𝗟𝗘 𝗛𝗜𝗦𝗧𝗢𝗥𝗜𝗔 𝗗𝗘 𝗧𝗶𝗺 𝗣𝗮𝘆𝗻𝗲, 𝗘𝗟 “𝗝𝗨𝗚𝗔𝗗𝗢𝗥 𝗠𝗘𝗡𝗢𝗦 𝗙𝗔𝗠𝗢𝗦𝗢” 𝗗𝗘𝗟 𝗠𝗨𝗡𝗗𝗜𝗔𝗟 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲
😳 El influencer argentino Valen Scarsini se puso a buscar al futbolista “menos famoso” entre todos los jugadores que disputarán el Mundial 2026.
🔎 Después de revisar selección por selección, encontró al defensor de Nueva Zelanda, Tim Payne.
📉 En ese momento:
👥 Menos de 5 mil seguidores
❤️ Fotos con apenas 200 likes
💙 Entonces Scarso pidió a la gente que lo siguiera, le diera like y lo apoyara sin importar la nacionalidad.
🚀 ¿El resultado?
📈 En solo un día, Tim Payne pasó de tener menos de 5 mil seguidores… ¡a más de 1 millón!
😅 Tim ni siquiera entendía qué estaba pasando porque comenzó a recibir notificaciones de todo el mundo.
🎥 Después grabó un video en español agradeciendo a todos diciendo:
💬 “MUCHOS GRACIA” 😭❤️
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⚽️🌍📈 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗜𝗡𝗖𝗥𝗘𝗗𝗜𝗕𝗟𝗘 𝗦𝗧𝗢𝗥𝗬 𝗢𝗙 𝗧𝗶𝗺 𝗣𝗮𝘆𝗻𝗲, ��𝗛𝗘 “𝗟𝗘𝗔𝗦𝗧-𝗞𝗡𝗢𝗪𝗡 𝗣𝗟𝗔𝗬𝗘𝗥” 𝗔𝗧 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲 𝗪𝗢𝗥𝗟𝗗 𝗖𝗨𝗣
😳 Argentine influencer Valen Scarsini decided to find the “least famous” player among everyone going to the 2026 World Cup.
🔎 After checking every national team, he found New Zealand defender Tim Payne.
📉 At the time:
👥 Less than 5,000 followers
❤️ Photos with barely 200 likes
💙 Scarso then asked people to follow him, like his posts, and support him regardless of nationality.
🚀 The result?
📈 In just one day, Tim Payne went from fewer than 5,000 followers… to over 1 million!
😅 Tim had no idea what was happening as notifications from all over the world suddenly started flooding his phone.
🎥 He later recorded a video in Spanish thanking everyone, saying:
💬 “MUCHOS GRACIA” 😭❤️
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