Tope Osundipe

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[FIFA World Cup @FIFAWorldCup]

Twenty years. One legend. Lionel Andrés Messi.

#FIFAWorldCup

[Tope Osundipe @topeosundipe]

@adedejisuyii Believe in the process. You have bounced back

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@nikkieofpearls @FabrizioRomano I just tire.

[Tope Osundipe @topeosundipe]

@nikkieofpearls @FabrizioRomano Pls, pls pls.....

[Tope Osundipe @topeosundipe]

@nikkieofpearls @adedejisuyii @Simplicity_Temi You're correct. Na d bros.

[Tope Osundipe @topeosundipe]

@adedejisuyii It's too early bro.

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@nikkieofpearls Very good

[Tope Osundipe @topeosundipe]

@oseme @nikkieofpearls Make we wait till then.

[Tope Osundipe @topeosundipe]

@nikkieofpearls @adedejisuyii @SamAkinlotan I will mind on your behalf, cos I will give her a big knock if I get to know. Again, we're Africans. I also think it's safe to just say AA

[Tope Osundipe @topeosundipe]

@nikkieofpearls @adedejisuyii @SamAkinlotan Let me give you a scenario, will you gladly take it if my daughter, Oreoluwa calls you Nike in about 10 year's time just because she's an Executive Trainee in a company you're the Chairperson.

[Tope Osundipe @topeosundipe]

@adedejisuyii @SamAkinlotan See, we're Africans... There are seniors I find it difficult to call by their first names even if the office culture says so. I no be GenZ sha.

[Barça Worldwide @BarcaWorldwide]

Obi Mikel: “Messi or Ronaldo?”

Jay Jay Okocha🇳🇬 : “Messi for me. Ronaldo is special, but he’s a goalscorer like Haaland. Messi is on another planet he’s art. He was born to play football. I think Messi would get ill if he doesn’t play football.”

[Tope Osundipe @topeosundipe]

@nikkieofpearls lolz, you like trouble

[JJ. Omojuwa @Omojuwa]

The Lionel Messi story is not what it is without Jorge Messi. This is the house that Jorge built. Rosario, the steel factory, the flight to Barcelona,  the big decisions, especially whether to stay or leave for Argentina, the napkin, and every decision after it.

A father first. And everything else the Messi journey asked of him.

May his soul rest in peace. Love and strength to the Messi family.

[Argentina Football Association (Albicelste) @argfootballafa]

Leo Messi; The greatest of all time 🐐

[Daniel Regha @DanielRegha]

Messi posted himself alone after the World Cup defeat to Spain (while graciously accepting the outcome); Emphasis on alone, preventing any negative remarks on the Argentine squad. But since the start of the World Cup tournament he was consistently posting his entire team, and not in just one slide, even when he was the main spotlight.

Some players will do the exact opposite, by making the victory about themself and making the defeat a group project.

Maturity.

[JJ. Omojuwa @Omojuwa]

Lionel Messi is the exact reason you should live solely on your own terms.

The man speaks ill of no one. He disrespects neither teammates nor rivals. He is the best to ever do his craft. Yet he has dedicated haters. If ever a man (let alone a player) should have had no haters, it is Messi. Still, on account of nothing but his matchless success, he commands a horde of them.

Do what thou wilt. People will talk regardless.

A life lived minding what people will say is a wasted life.

[Osita Chidoka @osita_chidoka]

Watching Lionel Messi at the 2026 World Cup, I found myself turning over one of the oldest questions a working life presents.

We are often told: leave when the ovation is loudest. It is sound advice. But I no longer believe it is the whole truth.

I believe that there is a time to step aside, when others must be given room to lead, or when we can no longer serve as we once did. But there is also a quieter danger: leaving too soon, not because we are finished, but because we are afraid of what a stumble might do to how we are remembered.

A stumble in the second act does not erase the first, and an exit timed to applause is no guarantee that history will remember you at all.

Messi could have walked away after 2022. Trophy in hand, story complete, the perfect close to a perfect career. Instead, he came back.

He risked comparison with the man he used to be, the possibility of falling short in front of a watching world, the chance that this second act would dim what the first had built. Argentina did not lift the cup this time.

But at thirty-nine, his composure and his experience still carried his country to a final. That is not a small thing.

His legacy was not diminished by trying again. If anything, it was enriched.

That is the deeper truth.

Do not retire from your purpose because you fear failure more than you love the work.

If your work remains honest, your contribution still matters, and you still have something left to give, then keep going.

A life well lived is measured as much by the courage to continue as by the wisdom to know when to stop.

Conquer fear. Keep playing the game of life.

Osita Chidoka
20 July 2026