Lionel Messi is the first player to score in SEVEN consecutive World Cup matches, a run that goes back to Argentina’s Round of 16 game against Australia in 2022.
All the records broken by Lionel Messi today:
Most FIFA World Cup finals goals by a football (soccer) player - 18
Most FIFA World Cup matches played in by an individual - 28
Most matches won by a player at the football (soccer) FIFA World Cup - 18
Most minutes played in the football (soccer) FIFA World Cup - 2,489
We are witnessing history.
Messi repeatedly conquered club football and took Argentina to within 3 matches of back to back to back tournament wins. Lost 3 finals. They wouldn’t have made any of those finals without him.
Before then, he had won the U/20 World Cup and the Olympics. They pretended those events never happened.
He was trolled like he hadn’t done anything. He was bantered like a villain. It was an all or nothing situation. He was bantered for the margins left of the all.
Take today’s banter as you find it. It is nowhere near what Messi was served, including on his birthdays.
There is nothing new under this sun. Take it on the chin or continue to cry. But if a man who was the best player at the World Cup got trolled for not winning it after losing a final they did enough to win, everyone should take what they get. Especially if you can’t even smell finals.
“Where is Messi?” became a thing after Messi scored a goal and dominated against Saudi Arabia. He wasn’t a passenger. He played. He scored. But they lost, so the world started to look for a man who wasn’t lost. Now you want to police people for asking for the invisible homelander?
Wasiu Adelabu Ogunmepons please!
I don’t want to hear pim!
Na God say make Messi no dey talk like Mohammed Ali. lol. There’d have been no debate about anything. After the Algeria game:
I am the greatest. Cristiano is not the greatest. Ogunmepon can’t score no World Cup hatty at almost 40. He doesn’t have a World Cup.
Mbappe is okay. But I won 5 ballon d’ors at his current age. I will give him the other 3 and he still won’t have as many ballon d’ors as me by the time he is 40.
I am the greatest. No one has ever been this good for this long. I have seen Ronaldo, the real Ronaldo, do it. He was on fire. Two world
Cups, you can’t be more Ronaldo than that.
Maradona is a legend, killed it in Napoli too. Pele touched 3 World Cups, you can’t sneer at that. They call us the trinity, I may be the youngest, but I am their father.
Cristiano had a spark when he started, he is all about the tap ins now. He couldn’t even start at the World Cup four years ago. Wasn’t it Morocco that…never mind. Qatar wasn’t my crowning glory, it was a gift for the fans, haters and lovers alike.
I am the greatest. The one who won what each of them won at least once, and then won a lot more. None of them can say that.
I am top of goals. I am top of assists. I get compared with the best of them scorers. I get compared with the best of the midfielders. I am the standard of football excellence. The unit of measurement.
I am one of one. When I am done, there will be none like me. I am the greatest. You know this, your mama knows this. I am Jordan and LeBron in one. Serena and the big 3 rolled into a body. No Tom and Jerry, but Brady and Rice.
I am the greatest. I never said that before I knew I was. But you and I know it now, I am the greatest. The truth and the Messi!
Que infravalorado el hecho de que Messi le haya ganado una final de Champions a Cristiano, una final de América a Neymar y una final del mundo a Mbappe. La superioridad es gigantesca.
What many people don’t know is that between 2007 and 2009, Solid Star recorded a lot of songs, but as the A&R and CEO of the label, I knew something was still missing. The talent was obvious, the vocals were amazing, but there was a particular spark I was searching for that I hadn’t heard yet in any of the records.
One day, I called him and said, “Look, I don’t want another fast-tempo song. I need something different. Give me a mid-tempo record, something with a bounce, something emotional. Just write a proper love song.”
He agreed and went to work on it. After a while, he came back and said, “I’ve written the love song. Do you want to hear it?” I told him yes immediately.
Around that same period, we were at Comfort Suites in Festac, and luckily for us, the late legendary producer OJB Jezreel was there that night working with 2Baba. I introduced Solid Star to OJB and told him we really wanted to work with him. OJB welcomed the idea and asked us to come back in a few days.
When we got to the appointment, OJB said he wanted to hear the song first.Solidstar sang the song for him, and almost instantly he caught the vision. Within less than 40 minutes, OJB had already created the beat, Solid Star had voiced the track, and the foundation of One in a Million was born.
After the recording, OJB looked at me and said something I would never forget: “If you can get 2Face on this song, it will be massive. This sounds like something he would naturally jump on.”
That advice changed everything.
As soon as I got back to Festac, I took the song to 2Baba. Before he even traveled to Abuja for his 10-year anniversary celebration, he was already vibing heavily to the song. By the time he got to Abuja, he knew the lyrics almost word for word. He told me he already had ideas for what he wanted to add to the record.
Then he said something that became another major turning point in Solid Star’s career: “If you don’t mind, bring Solidstar to Abuja to perform.”
That Abuja event — 2Face’s 10-year anniversary — became Solid Star’s very first major stage performance.
After they returned from Abuja, 2Face called me again and said, “Bring Solo to the house. I want to record my verse.” And that was how the legendary collaboration finally came together.
Once the audio was done, I approached Clarence Peters with the song. He listened carefully and immediately said he had a strong visual concept for it. He suggested we travel all the way to Erin Ijesha water falls for the shoot and also involve legendary photographer Kelechi Amadi-Obi in the creative process.
Everything sounded incredible — until he gave me the budget. It was a seven-figure production cost, which at that time was a huge risk for us as a growing label. I took the proposal back to my directors and explained everything to them. After deliberating, we all agreed on one thing: “Let’s give it a shot.”
And that was how we traveled toOsun state and shot the iconic One in a Million video.
On another note, I’ll still tell the full story of how I eventually got 2Baba to personally appear in that video.
Let me put this into perspective for you. My grandfather was a man of timber and caliber, father to the late Chief Gani Fawehinmi. Activism runs through my bloodline like oxygen, not a costume I wear for relevance or coins.
Now look at you. No lineage. No legacy. No traceable contribution to this nation beyond the noise you generate on a borrowed timeline. Your family tree is a stump.
You are not qualified to engage me. You are not even a footnote. You are a misplaced, digitally homeless individual with the intellectual depth of a puddle, stumbling across platforms you clearly lack the pedigree to navigate.
The moronic display you are putting on right now is not surprising. It is, in fact, the only language available to someone with nothing to offer and no history to stand on.
As you were.
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