🚨 Lionel Messi’s stats during this Ballon d'Or period:
⚔️ 48 matches
⚽ 45 goals
🅰️ 30 assists
🅿️ 75 G/A
🥇 30 MOTM
🧠 46 big chances created
🔑 148 key passes
💨 116 successful dribbles
👟 244 shots (106 on target!)
💪 234 duels won
🏆 MLS Cup Champions
🏆 MLS Eastern Conference Champions
🥇 MLS Season MVP
🥇 MLS Season Golden Boot
🥇 MLS cup playoffs MVP
🥈 2025 Leagues Cup runner up
🚨 2026 World Cup stats:
🥈 World Cup runner up
🥈 2nd Most goals (8)
🥈 2nd most assists (4)
🥈 2nd Most G/A (12)
🥇 Most Big chances created (8)
🥇 Most successful dribbles (25)
🥇 Most Chances Created (25)
🥇 Most Accurate crosses (19)
🥇 Most duels won (58)
🥇 Most shots taken (35)
🥈 2nd most shots on target (18)
He is coming for his 9th..........🐐
✨ Lamine Yamal’s achievements through 2025/26:
🏆 La Liga
🏆 Supercopa de España
🏆 FIFA World Cup
🏅 La Liga Player of the Season
🏅 AFE Best Primera División Player
🏅 3x La Liga Player of the Month (Nov/Dec/April)
🏅 Laureus World Young Sportsperson of the Year
🏅 𝑴𝒐𝒔𝒕 UCL goals scored before turning 19
🏅 Youngest to reach 25 UCL games
🏅 Most UCL G/A by age 18
🏅 𝒀𝒐𝒖𝒏𝒈𝒆𝒔𝒕 to win both, WC and Euros
🏅 𝒀𝒐𝒖𝒏𝒈𝒆𝒔𝒕 to play in a WC and Euros Final
⚡️ 42 club goal contributions in 45 games
⚡️ Double figures in the league (only one to do so)
⚡️ 𝑴𝒐𝒔𝒕 dribbles completed at the WC
⚡️ 𝑴𝒐𝒔𝒕 dribbles attempted across all T5 leagues (265)
⚡️ 𝑴𝒐𝒔𝒕 successful dribbles across all T5 leagues (133)
⚡️ 𝑴𝒐𝒔𝒕 open play chances created across all T5 leagues
⚡️ 𝑴𝒐𝒔𝒕 total chances created across all T5 leagues
“Failure of a season”, they say 🌕💙❤️
Nike signed Messi when he was 14. They lost him over a few hundred dollars worth of tracksuits, a mistake now estimated at $10 billion in brand value.
In 2005, Messi's father Jorge asked Nike for some extra tracksuits for his son, a routine request from the family of an 18-year-old who had just broken into Barcelona's first team. Nike's Iberian and South American offices both ignored it. He never got a reply.
Adidas was paying attention. They offered around $1 million a year, and Nike refused to match because they didn't want a bidding war over a teenager. They were busy building their 2006 World Cup campaign around established stars.
Once the Adidas deal leaked, Nike panicked and sued in Spanish court, claiming a binding contract. The judges found all Nike had was a "commitment letter" with no legal weight. Messi signed with Adidas in February 2006, and in 2017 they gave him a lifetime deal.
So when he walks out at El Monumental on October 6 for his final Argentina match, in front of 84,000 people, the gold-lettered farewell jersey he revealed today will carry three stripes.
Twenty years, 125 international goals, a World Cup, and every shirt sold along the way. All of it went to Adidas because someone at Nike didn't answer an email about tracksuits.
🚨 A Palestinian mom was shot point blank in her head by IDF soldiers while she was carrying her child.😡😡
Retweet and expose Israel if you have a little Humanity left in you‼️
🚨🗣️ 𝗡𝗘𝗪: Lamine Yamal reveals the moment Sergio Busquets gave him a serious lesson when he was still a youngster at Barcelona:
“Once, I was suspended from the national team for three weeks because we did some stupid things as kids.”
“One day, when I went to train with the first team, Busi [Busquets] grabbed me and asked: ‘What did you do with the national team?’”
“He was VERY serious. I was just a kid and I was actually scared. I told him what happened and he said: ‘You’re at Barcelona now. Everyone knows who you are, and no matter how good you are as a player, you have to know how to BEHAVE!"
“From that moment, I changed everything in my life and dedicated myself completely to football.”
“I stopped going out. I trained, played, rested, went to see my mother and then continued.”
“From that moment I fully dedicated my life to: FOOTBALL, FOOTBALL AND FOOTBALL.”
🫂✨ Lamine Yamal tells Movistar: “Lionel Messi was the best player at the World Cup because of everything he represents and everything he did”.
“Even though everyone knows Messi is the best player in history, nobody expected him to have such an incredible World Cup”.