~~~

[~~~ @thrsprds]

The end of an era, is the beginning of another.
But.

There will never be another LIONEL MESSI!

GOAT

[FootyCuler💙❤️ @barca_supremacy]

I’ll just leave this here 🇦🇷🐐🔥

[serba salah jadi fans messi @Zenuchh]

ini statistik individu apa dawg, geloo 🫠🫠

[The Fútbol Zone | FZ @TheFutbolZoneX]

🚨 Zlatan Ibrahimovic: "They Couldn't Stop Messi on the Pitch, So They Attacked Him Off It"

🗣️: "People keep asking me why Messi suddenly became the target at this World Cup. It's simple. He reminded the world who he is."

"They expected a 39-year-old man to come here for a farewell tour. Instead, he arrived scoring goals, creating chances, deciding matches, and making football look effortless. Every performance pushed the debate further away because the truth became impossible to ignore."

"The moment people, even some Ronaldo fans started admitting that Messi is the greatest, panic set in. Suddenly, pages that had never cared about football were talking about 'rigged' tournaments. Not tactics, not performances, not football. Just propaganda. When you can't stop greatness on the pitch, you try to bury it off the pitch."

"Messi's only crime was being too good. He embarrassed younger players at 39 and made people question everything they had spent years arguing. That is why the noise became louder every time he had another masterclass."

"Then Ronaldo got knocked out, and the campaign became even bigger. Instead of celebrating football, people desperately searched for excuses to discredit the one player who kept delivering. That's what happens when emotion loses to reality."

"Messi didn't need to lift another World Cup to prove anything. On the biggest stage, at 39 years old, he reminded the world why millions call him the greatest footballer ever. Legends don't need propaganda. Their football speaks for them. The rest only need excuses."

[FaktaBola @FaktaSepakbola]

Dari Brasil ke Qatar, lalu Amerika Serikat. Lionel Messi telah merasakan pahitnya kegagalan, manisnya menjadi juara dunia, hingga kembali meneteskan air mata. Perjalanan yang hanya bisa dimiliki oleh seorang legenda.

The Greatest Of All Time. 🐐🇦🇷

[~~~ @thrsprds]

@FaktaSepakbola Luka paling dalam itu pas Pildun 2014.

Gils, perihnya masih keinget terus.
Apalagi kalo lihat foto ini:
🥲

[La Albiceleste | Tim Tango @albiceleste_id]

SEPAK BOLA AKAN SELALU MENARIK DENGAN BUMBU-BUMBUNYA, KONTROVERSINYA, EMOSINYA DLL

REKAP PERJALANAN TIMNAS ARGENTINA DI PIALA DUNIA 2026

Matchday 1 Vs Algeria
Sangat menikmati, Messi Hattrick. Bulan Madu Piala Dunia dimulai. 😁

Matchday 2 Vs Austria
Sengit, Messi gagal penalti tapi happynya ga kurang sama sekali.

Matchday 3 Vs Jordan
Lapis kedua, Lo Celso Menggila dan akhir dari fase grup yang indah dengan gol freekick Messi.

32 Besar
Vs Cape Verde
Awal keajaiban-keajaiban.
Bukan match mudah 120 menit dan hiburan yang mendebarkan.

16 Besar
Vs Mesir
Tampak kalah semangat, dan hampir putus asa, tapi bak roller coster dan menang dramatis. Deg-degannya super kerasa.

8 Besar
Vs Swiss
Partai Berat, Alot, dan lagi-lagi fans Argentina dibuat untuk tidak lelah untuk percaya pada tim ini.

4 Besar
Vs Inggris
Pasrah dan ikhlas pulang,
Keajaiban datang dan memukul mundur "orgasme" banyak orang.
Mengapa??
Tuchel datang diremehkan banyak orang.
Tetiba ngebawa Inggris sampe semi final.
Dan ketika harapan itu didepan mata, dapat hadiah dari Enzo dan Lautaro.
Mental Argentina berbicara tapi banyak yang DENIAL.

😁😁

FINAL
VS SPANYOL
Argentina vs Everybody 😁😁
Fans Spanyol, Prancis, Portugal, INGGRIS dkk

Seluruh Dunia berharap Argentina kalah.

Hasilnya???
Spanyol menggila dan Argentina kehilangan arah di final.
ANTI KLIMAKS

Sebagai Fans Argentina
sedih? JELAS, kecewa? JELAS.

Tapi Spanyol memang superior di malam itu.

Persetan dengan teori konspirasi dll.
HANYA ALAT ENGAGEMENT mereka yang cari IMPRESI

😁😁😁

DIRTY FOOTBALL
adalah hal biasa dalam sepak bola.
Bagian dari taktik atau respon pemain di lapangan.

Lepas kontrol juga adalah hal yang wajar bagi seorang pemain bola. Apalagi dengan tensi pertandingan terutama FINAL PIALA DUNIA.

Apapun kalah dalam final adalah merasa jadi PECUNDANG.

MOLINA, PAREDES, OTAMENDI, ENZO BAHKAN AYALA adalah wajah sepak bola Argentina yang menggebu.

SALAH? IYA, TAPI SUDAH JADI CULTURE ASLINYA.

Ketika mereka selesai pertandingan mereka semua mengaku salah dan semua hal itu terjadi karena tensi, pride dll yang kadang bisa bikin akal sehat hilang.

Ga usah judgment macem-macem kita sudah sering melihat pemain-pemain top hilang control dan itu wajar, bagian dari sepak bola.

Dewa Bola seperti MARADONA ZIDANE dan pemain-pemain top pernah melakukannya.

CANTONA, ROONEY, PEPE, dan banyak lagi pemain yang lepas kontrol emosi pernah menghiasi headline sepak bola.

BUKAN SEBUAH PEMBENARAN, TAPI HANYA MENGINGATKAN SEPAK BOLA MENARIK ITU KARENA BANYAK BUMBU-BUMBUNYA, KONTROVERSINYA DLL.

SEKIAN 😁😁

[Appie Culé @appiecule]

I’m going to take my time with this one. If you’re busy, save this post and read it later. Don’t miss this trust me.

I just want to put one final point on Messi’s story: football has never truly been an individual sport—except when it came to him.

Football is a team game. No matter how great you are, you still need the players around you to compete, even if the entire system is built to maximize your strengths.

Yet even with Messi, people kept repeating the same old narrative about Xavi, Iniesta, and Guardiola. The reality is that Messi only spent about four years playing with that historic generation, and even that team looked lost before Guardiola arrived. Messi contributed just as much to their greatness as they did to his.

When that generation left, Barcelona became almost entirely dependent on Messi for two years. Then Luis Enrique arrived, along with Suárez and Neymar, not to carry Messi, but to help share the burden.

After Neymar left, and with Suárez well past his best, Messi was once again carrying Barcelona almost entirely by himself, surrounded by average players. He was one game away from another historic treble, and once again, he was the team’s standout player.

Many people forget that in 2014, after Messi became La Liga’s all-time leading scorer with a hat-trick against Sevilla, Barcelona fans were handed flyers asking: “What if you woke up tomorrow and Messi was no longer at Barcelona?” Even then, some people still couldn’t bring themselves to give him the credit he deserved.

Messi even wanted to leave in 2020, and the situation nearly ended up in court. But he stayed because he didn’t want to fight the club he loved. In the end, he was still forced out in one of the saddest exits in football history.

Argentina was no different.

For years, Messi carried one of the worst-run national teams in modern football. In 2010, Maradona played Germany with four attackers because he believed more forwards meant more goals. Argentina lost 4–0.

Yet Messi was the one blamed.

He was called a failure, a choker, and a coward by people who ignored the reality that, without him, Argentina might not even have qualified for the 2014 World Cup. Every Copa América final they reached was because Messi got them there in the first place.

The difference was enormous: with Messi, Argentina reached finals; without him, they struggled even against much weaker opponents.

The 2022 World Cup wasn’t just about a great team—it was also about Messi bringing confidence, leadership, and belief to a group of players who followed him. He carried the responsibility while everyone else played their role.

Even in the latest World Cup, at 39 years old, Messi was covering huge areas of the pitch, playing 120 minutes repeatedly, and constantly finding new ways to win games almost by himself.

Most people will never care about these details or this context. Future generations will only look at trophies and short tournaments.

In the end, every argument people used against Messi eventually disappeared. They said he had no World Cup—he won it. They said he had no Copa América—he won it too.

To me, Messi is the most unfairly judged player in football history. No player has been blamed for more things beyond his control or had more false narratives attached to his name.

That’s Messi’s story—through logic, reality, and everything he had to endure.

[rosie @therosieum]

https://t.co/F2G1usjT2E

[nupinupinupi @Novitayulianaaa]

Mungkin yang bikin gue sedih bukan karna Messi kalah, tapi dari awal narasi ke dia negatif semua. Tahun ini dia begitu dibenci oleh banyak orang.

Tapi yang sayang Messi lebih banyak daripada yang benci, dan itu yang bikin gue tetep bertahan menjadikan dia satu satunya orang yang gue kagumi untuk hal apapun. Dia sudah menang dalam segala hal

Sebagai Fans Barcelona gue cukup sakit meilhat perpisahan dia di club, gue cuma pengen kali ini dia berpisah dengan cerita yang manis

THAT'S IT!!!

[~~~ @thrsprds]

Kayaknya gak ada yang ngeles nyari-nyari alasan deh pas Argentina kalah.
Timnasnya maupun mayoritas fansnya.

Aku diginiin juga ya gak bisa bela, emang bener jelek mainnya menurutku, kayak bukan Argentina biasanya.

Jadi, Spanyol jadi Juara Dunia 2026 = LAYAK BANGET!

[Pain.𝕏 @GBarca_]

The greatest there is.

The greatest there was.

The greatest there ever will be.

[~~~ @thrsprds]

2016

Pernah nulis begini buat MESSI pas dia bilang mau pensiun

Gue masih inget sampe sekarang sedihnya gimana.

Abis itu beneran balik, trus ngalamin naik turun di Timnas.

Lalu 2021 baru impian-impian itu terpenuhi satu-satu sampai jadi Juara Dunia 2022

Terima kasih, MESSI

[adidas Football @adidasfootball]

GREATEST OF ALL TIME.

[Fabrizio Romano @FabrizioRomano]

✨🇪🇸 Rodri: “I hope my story will be taken by young players as an example: even when your career goes down, you can always come back”.

[CulerGavi @CulerGavi]

Born too late to see dinosaurs
Born too early to see flying cars
Born just in time to witness Leo Messi

Thank you for everything, we will miss you ❤️

[デライ @derayaw13]

🔵🔴

[FaktaBola @FaktaSepakbola]

Perjalanan kali ini memang tidak berakhir dengan trofi. Namun, itu tidak mengurangi sedikit pun kebanggaan terhadap apa yang telah Lionel Messi lakukan. Di usia yang tak lagi muda, ia kembali memimpin Argentina hingga partai final, memberikan harapan, emosi, dan kenangan yang akan selalu hidup bagi jutaan orang yang mengikutinya sejak awal.

Suatu hari nanti, hasil pertandingan ini mungkin akan terlupakan. Tetapi cara Messi menginspirasi, berjuang, dan membuat begitu banyak orang jatuh cinta pada sepak bola akan tetap dikenang. Terima kasih untuk satu perjalanan luar biasa lagi, Leo. Lionel Andrés Messi, selamanya.

#FIFAWorldCup

[Manchester City Supporters Club Indonesia @MCSCIndonesia]

GOAT 🤝 GOAT

[Manchester City Supporters Club Indonesia @MCSCIndonesia]

Setuju tidak, kalau Rodri adalah gelandang terbaik di masanya?