D10S 𓃵

@mancity fan | Messi 🐐| football lover🫶

[D10S 𓃵 @D10S_10era]

Not a debate. A checklist Ronaldo can’t tick.

[The Touchline | 𝐓 @TouchlineX]

🚨 𝗖𝗥𝗔𝗭𝗬 𝗦𝗧𝗔𝗧: Barcelona have won all 9 out of 9 games so far this season! 🔥

[D10S 𓃵 @D10S_10era]

@TouchlineX BARÇA ARE ON A MISSION 😭🍿 9 wins out of 9? Somebody needs to stop this team 😭

[Omo Barca⚽️🖤 @Tobs_fc]

Ignore the background music and listen to the roaring stadium fans chanting the name of one man.

Does Messi know the kind of power he carries. 😭😭

[Pike 🇦🇷🇪🇸 @Pikexra]

🚨Major Breaking : Lionel Messi has put his personal seal on the next generation by naming ten young talents as the players he believes will shape the future of the game.
In the third edition of Adidas’ “Messi +10” campaign, launched this weekend, the Argentine wrote the names by hand in a short film that carries the line “A legacy to build on. The next chapter starts here.” The list mixes seven male players and three female players from clubs across Europe and the Americas, ranging from established youth internationals to relative unknowns.
Among the standouts is Arsenal’s Max Dowman, the 16-year-old English midfielder who is the youngest name on the list and has already broken Premier League scoring records. Boca Juniors midfielder Tomás Aranda is the sole Argentine selected; the 19-year-old had trained with Messi and the national team earlier in the year before suffering a broken fibula. Mexican playmaker Gilberto Mora of Tijuana, who featured at the 2026 World Cup, also features, as do Eintracht Frankfurt’s Can Uzun, Como’s Jesús Rodríguez, AZ Alkmaar’s Kees Smit and Crystal Palace’s Zavier Gozo.
The three female players named are Chelsea defender Chloe Sarwie, Lyon’s Giovanna Waksman and Hamburg’s Lotta Wrede. Noticeably absent from the shortlist are several higher-profile names previously linked to the campaign or widely tipped as the next big things, including Franco Mastantuono and Nico Paz.
Previous editions of the series had already spotlighted players such as Lamine Yamal. This time Messi has spread the spotlight more widely, giving an official Adidas endorsement to a mix of familiar prospects and quieter talents. For the players involved, the recognition brings instant global attention; for everyone else, it offers Messi’s own shortlist of who he thinks is ready to write the next chapter.

[The Touchline | 𝐓 @TouchlineX]

🚨 𝗝𝗨𝗦𝗧 𝗜𝗡: Real Madrid have reached an agreement with Thibaut Courtois to extend his contract until 2028.

— @FabrizioRomano

[D10S 𓃵 @D10S_10era]

@TouchlineX @FabrizioRomano Madrid securing their wall for two more years 🤍 Courtois has saved them too many times to let him go 😭

[Fabrizio Prabono @fabrizioprabono]

Show me a player with a more beautiful first touch than Dr. Lionel Messi here. I bet you can't. 😮‍💨❤️

[D10S 𓃵 @D10S_10era]

Even as a kid, Messi was crediting everybody. 🐐

[Fabrizio Prabono @fabrizioprabono]

Typical X-Ray scan of Ronaldo fans head

[Fabrizio Prabono @fabrizioprabono]

Unlucky Chinicius, at least he's handsome now 👀

[Fabrizio Prabono @fabrizioprabono]

Since you're really retiring, I wrote this letter for you.

Dear Leo,
Thank you for teaching me what love, compassion, and loyalty really mean. You showed me, without ever knowing it, what it looks like to stay loyal to something you love even when the world begins to doubt it.

You never talked too much. You rarely caused trouble, and you almost never complained in front of others. When people doubted you, you did not answer them with words. You answered with what you did. You kept going until you reached the place you are now.

You also showed me that kindness does not need an audience. You helped people without needing anyone to see. You gave without asking for anything back. And in the way you lived, you taught me something about faith: to keep God in every step, and to trust Him when the result is still unknown.

I saw it in the celebrations you offered to Him, in the tenderness with which you treated people, and in the goodness you carried through the years.

From the time I was a child until now, with a family of my own, you have been one of my inspirations. My idol. My role model. I did not even understand Spanish, and still I understood you.

I watched you fall. I watched people doubt you, criticize you, and say you would not make it. Then I watched you win everything you had fought for.

Now a chapter of that journey is ending.

You have given so much to your country, so much to football, and so much to the millions who love you, including me.

So when the spotlight fades, and the stadiums no longer call your name the way they used to, I have only one request.

Please keep being the Leo I have known since I was a child.

The Leo who is humble.
The Leo who is quiet.
The Leo who stays himself, no matter how many reasons the world gives him to change.

Please remain a good person. Not only today, and not only while the world is watching, but for the rest of your life.

To so many children, you were never only a footballer. You were a hero. I was one of them.

Thank you for being part of my childhood, and for staying with me through so many chapters of my life. Thank you for the memories I will carry even though you never knew I existed.

Enjoy this new chapter, Leo.

May God be with you, protect you and your family, and give you a happiness greater than any trophy you have won.

You will probably never read this. Still, I want you to know one thing: I love you, Lionel Andrés Messi Cuccittini.

I will always be grateful that I lived in the same era as you.
And isn’t it wonderful, Capitán, to be so clearly loved by God?

Te amamos, Capitán.

Thank you for everything. ❤️

[Pike 🇦🇷🇪🇸 @Pikexra]

GM ☀️🤍

New morning. Fresh opportunities. Another chance to get things right.

⚽ Stay in your lane, trust your training, and remember that even the best players need time to develop their game.

Your moment will come. Keep working.

Wishing everyone a beautiful and productive day. 🤝

[Pike 🇦🇷🇪🇸 @Pikexra]

What is your honest prediction of this match

[Pike 🇦🇷🇪🇸 @Pikexra]

Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo have spent the better part of two decades filling the Guinness World Records books, yet they have done so in unmistakably different ways. Messi has accumulated the larger total of official titles, while Ronaldo has claimed the ones that measure pure volume and endurance.
Messi’s edge is clearest in individual recognition. He holds the record for the most Ballon d’Or awards with eight, including four in a row from 2009 to 2012, and he remains the youngest player to reach successive multiples of the prize. The same sense of peak performance appears in his 91 goals across club and country in 2012, still the most scored in a single calendar year, and in the 672 goals he scored for Barcelona alone, the highest total for any player at one club.
At the World Cup the contrast continues. Messi finished with the most matches played (34), the most wins (23), the longest run of consecutive scoring games (nine), and the most Player of the Match awards. He also became the oldest player to score a hat-trick in the tournament. Both men share the record of appearing in six World Cups; Ronaldo scored in all six of them. The all-time goals mark ultimately passed to Kylian Mbappé, but Messi’s longevity across six tournaments remains unmatched in several other categories.
Ronaldo’s records speak to sustained production. He is the leading scorer in men’s international football and the player with the most international victories. In Europe he holds the records for the most Champions League goals and the most appearances in the competition, and he was the first to reach 100 goals in the tournament. Off the pitch he also holds the mark for the most Instagram followers.
The difference is less about who has more records than about the kind of excellence each one represents. Messi has repeatedly produced the highest peaks and collected the individual prizes that accompany them. Ronaldo has simply kept scoring and winning for longer, in more matches, for club and country. Both approaches have left permanent marks in the Guinness book, which is why the comparison still feels unfinished even as their careers wind down.

[D10S 𓃵 @D10S_10era]

@liamdahgoat Some players were simply too special to last forever 🥹💔 Football hasn’t felt the same since.

[liam @liamdahgoat]

I’d give anything to watch them play football together again

[D10S 𓃵 @D10S_10era]

@TouchlineX Imagine Kane playing in Norway instead of becoming one of the best strikers in the world 😭Football history is damn crazy 😭

[D10S 𓃵 @D10S_10era]

@TouchlineX 1,000 goals won’t change who’s the greatest. Messi provided it all. 🐐🇦🇷

[I.Ben 💧 @I_Ben_1]

I hope my ffs in the premier league will one day testify like this 😭

[I.Ben 💧 @I_Ben_1]

“Lamine Yamal didn’t do anything at the World Cup”😭