Daniel Irene

[🇦🇷 @edgeandgonee]

No footballer in history, dead or alive has ever reached this level of greatness. And nobody ever will.🐐♾️

[Daniel Irene @Irene15Daniel]

👌

[Miru 🦦 🇦🇷 @miru2895z]

2021 - Copa América
2022 - Finalissima
2022 - Copa Mundial
2024 - Bicampeones Copa América
2026 - Sub campeones del mundo

Gracias Selección, Gracias Argentina 🇦🇷

[adidas Football @adidasfootball]

GREATEST OF ALL TIME.

[CentreGoals. @centregoals]

Thank you for all the memories, Lionel Andrés Messi. ✨

[Fabrizio Romano @FabrizioRomano]

🚨 Lionel Scaloni: “What Messi did at this World Cup is incredible”.

“I hope people are proud of Leo. He’s the greatest footballer to have ever stepped onto a pitch”.

[Messismo @Messismo10]

Gracias loco. De verdad.

[FOX Sports @FOXSports]

The best to ever do it.

If this was Messi's final FIFA World Cup, thank you for all the magic.

[ESPN.com.mx @ESPNmx]

Gracias, Messi 🐐

[Daniel Irene @Irene15Daniel]

World Cup 2014 finalist, World Cup 2022 Winner, World Cup 2026 finalist. 3 World Cup finals and one win.. The Greatest of all Time.🖤

[Selección Argentina in English @AFASeleccionEN]

Thank you 🩵🇦🇷

[Berneese @theberneese]

Thank you for everything Leo🥹❤️

[Yakub @Yakkubkk]

Science can’t explain how Messi did the accurate pass here

[👑S.A.L.A.K.O🕊 @UnkleAyo]

To the little boy from Rosario 🇦🇷,

One who was once too quiet, too fragile, too weak, too small - with a body that betrayed him but with dreams strong enough to power through.

The little boy from Rosario who left home before he was ready, burdened with the hopes of millions before he was old enough to carry his own.

To that little boy, I write as tonight might be your final dance. 🇦🇷 🇪🇸

You conquered Europe, conquered every record that they said would never fall - to the world, you were an undisputed genius but everytime you put on the Argentine camiseta, he felt like a curse trailed you.

One final lost after another. What mattered to you the most, to bring joy to the cot that cradled you was constantly out of your reach.

Every defeat you suffered kept reminding us, that maybe, you're just as human as we are.

Every time you cried from the bench with swollen feet, we watched and are reminded, maybe you're just as human.

You retired and we thought your story was over - we could still make peace with the joy you've given us from club spectacle.

Like the Phoenix that you are, you rose from the ashes that was designed to bury you - you walked back into storms that was orchestrated to sink you.

My dear little boy from Rosario 🇦🇷,

you walked back to the pitch - fingers pointed to your grandmother who first believed, doubled the joy you've always brought us, fulfilled your lifelong dreams, made new records and broke your own records.

I'm not even Argentine but you've spurred me to permanently chant:

"Soy hincha de la Selección,
La aliento con el corazón
Ganamos la tercera con Lionel
Queremos ser campeones otra vez"

Tonight is not just another final, Muchacho. Tonight is not just about the hunt for another trophy, Lionel.

Tonight is about the compression of a 2-decade story line from 2006 to 2026.

All the tears, heartbreaks, all the doubts & how you repeatedly resurrected with no points left to prove.

We might not have existed in the times of Shakespeare, Alexander the Great, Michangelo, Plato, Isaac Newton - but it's been the absolute privilege of our lives to have existed while you did, the absolute honor of our lives to have been your audience.

Long after stadiums rot into the ground in silence, and goals get forgotten - we will always remember how you made us feel.

One day when we're all frail and rottening in our grandpa era, our grandchildren will feel electric surges just from touching us - and it will be difficult for us to explain that it was your gift to us 70 years back.

Maybe your last dance, maybe one more dance - but we're privileged to be dancing with you again, Mi Capitan.

🐐 🇦🇷

[Mayor of Abuja 🇧🇭(MOA) @Mayorstilldey4u]

A woman carrying her small baby at a public car.

Me at the baby:

[Morris Baker @MorrisBaker_]

Everyone talks about how Messi’s team would die for him.

We need to start talking about how he’d also clearly die for them.

[Daniel Irene @Irene15Daniel]

Goodnight to all Messi haters😂😂😭

[Neal 🇦🇺 @NealGardner_]

You tell me, Piers. You tell me…

[Sincerão @oficialsincerao]

O Messi tem uma força do krl, bizarro isso.

Kane deu no meio dele e caiu foi no chão

[MrBanks💰 @Mrbankstips]

Messi…no words to describe his genius.