Sams

🇨🇩 Ouais, je suis peu exemplaire. #TeamOL

[Annalise Keating @Ariannnyy_]

You can’t convince me life is just a series of coincidences. What do you mean Lionel Messi was randomly paired with a five-month-old baby after the baby’s family won a UNICEF raffle for a charity photoshoot while Messi played for Barcelona… and that baby grew up to be Lamine Yamal?

Lamine would go on to become one of the brightest young stars in soccer, wear the same No. 19 Messi wore for the same team when that photo was taken, and now, nearly two decades later, could face Messi in a World Cup Final???????

[Castro1021 @Castro1021]

I agree that Tuchel was at fault.

But whatever tf Bellingham said to Messi here was also a factor…. 😂

[SIR AHMED @midopido21]

Lionel Messi vs England

All second-half touches

[SIR AHMED @midopido21]

Lionel Messi vs England

[Arvin @sozirv]

This is the greatest screenshoot ever man wtf

[✍️ 🇦🇱 @10blended]

ngl Messi has lowkey lapped my father in the family ranking

[Football Performances @FCPerformances]

Lionel Messi Performance Today!

[Mr.AHENKORAH @_mrahenkorah]

@MagicalXavi Messi🥺❤️❤️

[🕊️ @MagicalXavi]

Every Messi touch after England Scored the first goal

[★ @POPin4k]

Rocky (1976)
I Play Rocky (2026)

[Ahmed/The Ears/IG: BigBizTheGod 🇸🇴 @big_business_]

Jim Jones posted a video on Instagram of himself chilling with Busta Rhymes at Jay-Z’s Yankee Stadium concert.

The Instagram comments immediately started FRYING him with “AYOOOO” and “PAUSE,” causing Jim Jones to delete the video and apologize shortly afterward LLLMMFFAAOOO

[Ous @fukxumean]

Rodrigo Hernandez vs France

Best In The World

[Rafael Hernández @RafaelH117]

Every single match Rodri plays there’s bigger proof he deserved that Golden Ball more than anyone else.

[SKB @seyikanbai]

“I have a Diploma in Accounting. I chose to study accounting for 4 years while chasing professional football, so i could have something to fall back to in case Football stops giving me money”

— N’Golo Kanté

[Appie Culé @appiecule]

I’m going to take my time with this one. If you’re busy, bookmark it and come back later.

Do you know the biggest problem with Cristiano Ronaldo? It isn’t that he never won the World Cup. It’s that he spent years telling everyone what separates legends, only to change the standards once he couldn’t reach them himself.

After winning Euro 2016, Ronaldo made it clear that winning a major international trophy was what completed a player’s legacy. At the time, Messi had just lost another international final and was going through the toughest period of his career. Those comments only added to the narrative that Messi could never be the greatest because he hadn’t won with Argentina. For years, that became the standard. Messi was called a bottler, while Ronaldo was praised as the player who had proved himself internationally.

Nobody wanted to hear about context. Nobody cared that Messi had dragged Argentina to a World Cup final in 2014 with a squad many considered weaker than the Portugal teams Ronaldo has had over the last decade. The only thing that mattered was that Ronaldo had won a major trophy with his country, and Messi hadn’t.

Then Messi won the Copa América. Suddenly, the goalposts moved. We were told one Euro was worth more than multiple Copa América titles because South America supposedly wasn’t competitive enough. That became the new excuse.

Then Messi won the World Cup. The excuses changed again. It was “fixed.” It was “scripted.” Then came, “A career can’t be defined by seven games.” Funny how nobody was saying that before the tournament, when many believed it would finally be Ronaldo’s chance to win it.

Now Portugal have been eliminated from the World Cup, and Ronaldo posts about Euro 2016 again. That’s what I find ironic. When international trophies favored Ronaldo, they were the ultimate measure of greatness. When Messi caught up, people started ranking competitions differently. When Messi surpassed him by winning the biggest trophy in football, suddenly the World Cup wasn’t supposed to define a career anymore.

That’s the contradiction.

The difference between Messi and Ronaldo was never just about goals, assists, or trophies. It’s about consistency. Messi never needed to diminish Ronaldo’s achievements to elevate his own, nor did he ask football to change its standards because they no longer favored him. He simply kept playing until he won everything there was to win.

League titles. Champions Leagues. Ballons d’Or. Golden Boots. Copa América. Finalissima. World Cup. Every major trophy that was ever used against him eventually became part of his legacy.

Cristiano Ronaldo will always be one of the greatest footballers to ever play the game. But this is exactly why I believe Messi is the greatest. He didn’t ask football to rewrite the standards.

He met every single one of them.

[DAVE💀🇦🇷🇫🇷 @the_real_David5]

this is why ronaldo fans don’t talk about it 😂😂😂
messi has owned him on the every stage they’ve competed!

[UZOAMAKA 💓💓🇩🇴 @jennygodswill]

This is the most beautiful transformation you will see on your timeline today 🥹

I’m screaming 😱 🔥

[Robert Greene @RobertGreene]

Making money or being successful should be a natural result of this ideal and not the goal itself.

[sohom @AwaaraHoon]

this Moroccan girl is a menace. She made a 2026 version for Ronaldo again 😭

[ladybug ʸᵘᵏⁱ @dollblkp]

Ça a prit ma brosse à dent pour faire des baby air avec, SAYE LES NOIRS J’EN PEUX PLUS