L.A

[Rado 🎈 @thee_ovie]

Ronaldo money long gan. After paying twitter influencers to push the anti-Argentina agenda, he still had enough to pay the likes of Laporte and DAZN. What a guy!

[Ridwan @ridwan_on_x]

If they run out of funds, I’d donate.

[Copy Counsel @BenYousef_E]

Messi let him down. He did everything possible to keep Argentina in the game with saves but Argentina lost because the ego of one man is bigger than an entire nation.

Fully fit Latutaro Martinez who scored the winner for them in the semi final was on the bench but Messi chose to loiter around the pitch for 125 minutes.

[Copy Counsel @BenYousef_E]

E reach your turn to chest agenda, you dey form Shakespear and suddenly, football bants suppose be intellectual conversations. Na so una dey do? 😂

[SeaSnake @moyodre]

lost the final
lost the golden ball
lost the golden boot
lost the playmaker award

I was patient and everything got delivered same day, overnight shipping 👏🏾

[Rab 🎙️ @RabSoPetty]

Welcome to comics my nigga 😂

If you ain’t Uncle Ben you COMING BACK

[OurFaveOnlineDoc 🇬🇧 🇳🇬 @OurFavOnlineDoc]

“Even Messi is a self!sh legend.
At 39, you shouldn't be playing 90mins when your team needs to win.
At 70+ minutes, there are tired legs & a fresh player upfront could've help but no, remained & wasted the slot.”

Agenda na multipurpose agbada.
We can wear it to any occasion.

[L.A @olatoke_]

It is always hilarious when Ronaldo fans know more about Messi than Ronaldo haters

[Nobody @dharnyyoung]

"He disrespects neither teammates or rivals". I don't think you guys even know the person you claim to support.

[amounzz @amounzz_]

After watching this again I understand why the ref gave the foul Rodri nearly killed Messi

[L.A @olatoke_]

Ronaldo asks the referee to blow offside for his teammates' goals

[Oyiga Micheal @Nsukka_okpa]

The same people that believed Ronaldo Paid Influencers for PR over a fake Chatgpt email, Are the ones saying they’re the smartest fans 😂

[Neo Officiall @neo_officialll]

The biggest lie in football history is that Messi is the good and humble one while Ronaldo is the bad and arrogant one.

[VII @Cerebrone]

Sent your players out to be thugs again and again. No sportsmanship, racist singing & constant disrespect of opponents, all that. You led and commanded these troops. Losers.

I will be sleeping well tonight. Your tears have overfed me. Cry, Scaloni. Cry for me.

[L.A @olatoke_]

But but Gonzalo Ramos

[UG @UgwunnaEjikem]

Like it’s common sense. Those players will always start/play unless their replacements are WATER-TIGHT.

Even at 41 & 39, with good teams they’re both still good enough to impact games but common sense usually flies out the window when it’s Ronaldo involved lol

[L.A @olatoke_]

😭😭

[neptune ☆ @neptuneptunee]

มุมนี้ตลกกว่าเดิม555555555 ใครจะทำไรก็ช่างโลกนี้มีเพียงเราสอง

[RW 🇸🇪 @ronaldowarrior]

We always thought the perfect ending for Ronaldo would be lifting the World Cup. But maybe his ending is even more meaningful. He was being painted as the villain for his whole career, only for casuals to start questioning Messi’s whole legacy filled with Negreira and FIFA help

[Rado 🎈 @thee_ovie]

Leader of the Messi cartel, Kombo say when you score goals and don’t win the trophy you score USELESS GOALS.

So my brother, how person wey score useless goals wan take win mvp naaw?

[Ridwan @ridwan_on_x]

Wallahi, I’ve never gone this hard on Messi in my life. I like him as a footballer and I enjoy watching him play. My dislike for Argentina has always been mostly collective, and partly because I didn’t want a second Messi World Cup.

But my recent dragging of him? That was mostly because of his fans. Interact with them and you’ll see how deeply they hate CR7 — constantly downplaying his greatness and rubbishing his contributions to the sport we all love.

Just like CR7, I felt little to no pain when Portugal exited the WC. But yesterday? One of the best days I’ve had all year. Every picture and video of Messi crying brought me immense joy. Slept like a baby.

[IM🇵🇹 @Iconic_Mourinho]

I have been thinking about why Argentina are so hated by everyone.

Is it all the polemics with FIFA? I don't think that explains everything.

Is it Messi hate? That doesn't make sense, because all the neutrals also seem to hate Argentina.

And I think I found out the reason.…

For the first time in 30 years, Argentina won trophies. And within 5 years, they became the most hated NT in the world.

Are they hated because they win? No, past World Champions didn't get this hate (in fact, those teams got more admired after winning).

They're hated because of how they handled success.

Let's elaborate:

In many sports' rivalries it's easy to spot who is the dominant team and who is the smaller team, just by looking at each team's posture. This can be called the "big brother x little brother effect."

The "big brothers" are teams that are consistently the best, and they know it. When they win, they see it as a natural result of their superiority. So they shake their opponents' hands and move on to the next one.

Most dominant clubs in each league usually behave like this (Bayern is the best example). Good examples are also NTs such as Germany, France, Brazil, and Spain (more recently).

The "little brothers" are teams that feel like the eternal underdog. When they beat their "big brothers", they have to gloat, rub it in everyone's face and make it last. They do whatever is necessary to beat the bigger team (even unethical behavior). These teams are sour losers and obnoxious winners.

A great example is Atletico Madrid. But in international football, the best example of this - by far - is Argentina.

Since the dawn of football, Argentina have been the little brothers to Brazil. When Argentina won their first World Cup, Brazil already had 3. Argentina had Maradona, but Brazil already had "King Pele". For every world class player Argentina produced, their neighbours Brazil produced 5. Decades and decades of this.

What can you do? You accept your fate. You are the little brother. You taunt, you provoke, you do anything to get out of Brazil's shadow. For every relevant achievement, you rub it in everyone's face and you don't let anyone forget.

Then came the 2020s. Brazil entered a football crisis, and Argentina finally won again. But, unlike previous World Champions, they felt the need to rub it in all their opponents' faces, so no one would forget.

But why are they still so attached to this obnoxious posture in 2026? Brazil have gone decades without winning the World Cup, while barely producing any remarkable players. Argentina were going for back to back World Cups!

Why not win with some class? Why not be the big brother, finally? This would be the time.

Maybe this "little brother" phenomenon can also be individual…

How is the life of Argentina's players most of the time?

Apart from Messi, McAllister and Lautaro, it doesn't look great…

6 of them actually play for Atletico Madrid.

Enzo has never even won a domestic trophy. At Chelsea, it's been all disappointing seasons, while being highly disliked by many of Chelsea's fans.

Romero's club career is also a disaster. No domestic trophies. Tottenham went downhill right after signing him. He's also highly disliked by many of Spurs' fans.

Emiliano Martinez spent his career as an Arsenal reject, and later joined Gerrard's Villa, where he's never won anything.

Even Otamendi, who played for Pep's Man City, was always seen as the weak link of that team, the perfect target for opponents.

Argentina has a culture of "little brother", but most of their players also became "little brothers" in football. So they kept feeling like underdogs, even after winning 3 trophies in a row with the NT.

This was the year they should have become the "big brothers" and started behaving like a winning team.

They didn't. They became an example of how not to act in sports.

They became hated because they couldn't handle their own success.

Argentina, the greatest "little brothers" in football history.

[B @utdbrxy]

spanish version of “we dont have the capacity”

[L.A @olatoke_]

Huh?

[Fabrizio Romano @FabrizioRomano]

“It hurts. It hurts my soul”. Lionel Scaloni. 💔🥺

@DSports 🎥