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[Fabrizio Romano @FabrizioRomano]

Lionel Messi’s letter for his father. ❤️‍🩹

Dad, I still can’t believe that you’ve gone. I don’t fall, or rather, I don’t want to fall. It’s very hard for me to imagine that I’m not going to see you anymore, that we’re not going to talk anymore. I know you were suffering and that it’s for the best, but you left too soon. We still had a lot left to enjoy together.

You asked me so much to play in the last World Cup, and it was in the days just before it started that you got the worst. It was the first time you weren’t going to be at a tournament, but Mom told me that you were going to get better and that you’d be well enough to travel. I told you we were going to reach the final so you could travel.

Every time a match ended I waited for and missed your message. That’s when I realized the situation was really bad. Even so, I didn’t stop thinking about going as far as possible, to buy you time and so you could see a match. We reached the final and you couldn’t be there.

I wanted to win it to bring it to you and show you a new one. I couldn’t; my legs wouldn’t give any more. This time I tried to go against my body, but I couldn’t. I never managed to feel good.

When I arrived you thought we had lost the final on penalties. We couldn’t talk about any of everything that happened. You couldn’t enjoy anything.

We weren’t champions, but you have no idea how much we enjoyed every single match. Once again, you were right: I had to be there and play it.

I’m telling you this because it was the only thing we couldn’t talk about, since you already know everything else. We talked every day and saw each other whenever we could, given my commitments.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

I don’t know what I’m going to do without you, I don’t know how to go on. I only played football and now I have quite a few doubts about whether I’ll keep doing it for much longer.

You were by my side from the beginning; there was so little left until the end. Why couldn’t you hold on that little bit more so we could finish together?

I know your happiness was seeing your family well, your wife, your children, and above all, without the others finding out, watching me play…

It was always like that since I was little. You would take me to all the training sessions as soon as you got home from work. For many of them Mum took me because you were working.

Obviously you never missed a single match. How you suffered watching me and how you enjoyed it, even though you never gave me many compliments.

You were dad, friend and representative.

You were always the person you needed to be in every moment and you never got anything wrong. Beyond a few reproaches or arguments, you were always right. In the end it always turned out the way you said.

I’m going to miss you a lot, but you’ll always be present, and especially in the upbringing of my children, because I teach them and raise them the way you both did with me.

Rest in peace and look after us from above the way you did down here. Thank you for everything.

I love you, Dad. ❤️

[🕊️ @MagicalXavi]

His father was unwell
Legs shattered
People running smear campaigns

Against all odds he dragged his team to a World cup final, Thank you for giving us one last memorable tournament ❤️

[🇦🇷🧉 @jonahcelona]

He is the toughest human being I know. He was always compared to Maradona since his career started, hated by his countrymen for not winning an international trophy and delivered a hall of fame WC campaign at 39 despite his father dying and smear campaign online

Stay strong 🐐♥️

[MS 🫵🏻 @Messsiesque]

He played entire World Cup knowing he could lose his father any time.

Mind you, there was an entire hate campaign against this guy

[Pain.𝕏 @GBarca_]

History will remember this as the greatest World Cup campaign by a 39 year old.

[𝐊𝐔𝐑𝐃 @KurdishFT]

In 2023, right before he started playing for Inter Miami, Lionel Messi ordered 8 pizzas from Banchero, an Argentine restaurant branch in Miami. The restaurant owner personally delivered the food himself and refused to let Messi pay. Later that night, Messi shared a photo of his pizza on his Instagram story. This turned into massive free marketing that completely changed the restaurant's brand image forever, their Instagram page skyrocketed from 6,000 followers to over 100,000 overnight thanks to Lionel Messi 🐐

[Jim Halpert Argento @sapillopillo]

valió la pena haber sido tan feliz, aunque el final fuera tan triste? sí.

[𝕯𝖚𝖞 @stfuduy]

@AnshKumarSingh6 @IAmRhythm31 Bro he put that shit on a platter for him he dropped the best performance in the world against a stacked England side, plus dominated every single stat an attacker can have. But Ronaldo was back against uzbekistan, watch a little more football before forming a stupid opinion

[𝐉𝐃 @JuannDis]

La conoció, la conquistó y se despidió.

[Juan @socraticjuan]

Because how could they not be welcomed home as Champions when it was literally them against the world?

[𝕯𝖚𝖞 @stfuduy]

@goatedronaldo7 @socraticjuan Your goat can’t even achieve Messi failure, pipe down

[E 💤 #ThankyouCassius @Eshulia_]

This clip is deadass real

He actually won it man

[Le J @mr_jnlc237]

T'annule le match contre Israël et 8 ans plus tard, on te traite de sioniste

[The Fútbol Zone | FZ @TheFutbolZoneX]

🎙️ Jamie Carragher on "Why Lionel Messi Started Receiving Hate at the World Cup"

🗣️: "Forget the noise, because football always tells the truth. The reason Lionel Messi suddenly became the target wasn't because he was poor, it was because he was brilliant.

At 39 years old, most people expected him to fade into the background. Instead, he dominated games, scored decisive goals, created chances, and reminded everyone why he's been at the top for nearly two decades. That's what changed the conversation.

When a player performs at that level on the biggest stage, opinions shift naturally. Some fans accepted that; others couldn't. Rather than appreciating what they were witnessing, the focus became conspiracy theories, officiating debates, and anything that could distract from Messi's football.

The irony is that none of those arguments change what happened on the pitch. Messi let his football do the talking.

Whether Argentina lifted the trophy or not, his performances reinforced what many already believed that greatness isn't decided by social media campaigns or fan wars. It's decided by what you produce when the pressure is highest.

That's why Messi's legacy remains untouchable. The game remembers performances, not propaganda."

[CentreGoals. @centregoals]

🚨🚨🎙️| Lisandro Martinez: “The downfall of the great has always been the joy of the mediocre.”

[𝕯𝖚𝖞 @stfuduy]

@AnshKumarSingh6 @IAmRhythm31 But the hate he is getting is deserved, talking out of his ass but Messi single handily carried Argentina to the final and got hate for it

[' @Bonmatimessi]

So Messi has been named the best player at the world cup by every source and rating app available, including Fifa's own player rankings but he didn't win the golden ball? where is the outrage?

[🎨 @Laudrupszn]

World Cup vibes were so good until Egypt had the biggest bottlejob in WC history and turned it into a refereeing and religion thing to dodge accountability.

Just call anything you don't like Israeli and people will take your side instead of thinking for themselves in 2026.

[𝕯𝖚𝖞 @stfuduy]

@ademi_alben @06qls He is a CDM soccer just isn’t all about goals and assists