💙 Tim's BlackBoy 💙📸. @StanleeTim

He's everywhere, across all records, like MTN. In this particular record, he's a decade older than the oldest of his counterparts. La pulga is nobody's mate. 🐐🐐🐐

FIFA @FIFAcom

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The four players to score a hat-trick at @FIFAWorldCup 2026! 🎩

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I have never seen a country lose a World Cup final and celebrate as if they won it. Scaloni has changed the mindset of Argentines! This is unreal! 👏👏👏

Ronaldo should hide his face in shame!

Good morning to ONLY Messi fans! ❤️⚡

Pase lo que pase mañana, solo puedo decir: GRACIAS

SI RETUITEAS AL MESSI CHIQUITO ARGENTINA LE GANA A ESPAÑA

Mi Capitan. One day when we're all frail in our grandpa era, our grandchildren will feel electric surges just from touching us - and it will be because of you. Maybe your last dance, maybe one more dance - but we're privileged to be dancing with you again, Mi Capitan. 🐐 🇦🇷

Leo. #FIFAWorldCup

Leo Messi’s letter to all Argentinians the night before the World Cup Final. 🩵🤍💌 “The most beautiful thing about all these years was 𝐧𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐣𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐭𝐢𝐭𝐥𝐞𝐬, 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐫𝐞 𝐣𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐧𝐞𝐲”. “Sharing day-to-day life with this group, competing together, picking ourselves up in the difficult moments, and 𝐞𝐧𝐣𝐨𝐲𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐩”. “Thanks to each one of my teammates, to the coaching staff, and to all the great people who work every day to keep this National Team as a 𝐟𝐚𝐦𝐢𝐥𝐲”. “Whatever happens tomorrow, this group has already written 𝐚 𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐲 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐰𝐞 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐧𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐠𝐞𝐭 and that no one will be able to erase”. “𝑽𝒂𝒎𝒐𝒔, 𝑨𝒓𝒈𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒂”.

I WILL LOVE YOU TODAY, TOMORROW AND FOREVER. ❤️

To the little boy from Rosario 🇦🇷, One who was once too quiet, too fragile, too weak, too small - with a body that betrayed him but with dreams strong enough to power through. The little boy from Rosario who left home before he was ready, burdened with the hopes of millions before he was old enough to carry his own. To that little boy, I write as tonight might be your final dance. 🇦🇷 🇪🇸 You conquered Europe, conquered every record that they said would never fall - to the world, you were an undisputed genius but everytime you put on the Argentine camiseta, he felt like a curse trailed you. One final lost after another. What mattered to you the most, to bring joy to the cot that cradled you was constantly out of your reach. Every defeat you suffered kept reminding us, that maybe, you're just as human as we are. Every time you cried from the bench with swollen feet, we watched and are reminded, maybe you're just as human. You retired and we thought your story was over - we could still make peace with the joy you've given us from club spectacle. Like the Phoenix that you are, you rose from the ashes that was designed to bury you - you walked back into storms that was orchestrated to sink you. My dear little boy from Rosario 🇦🇷, you walked back to the pitch - fingers pointed to your grandmother who first believed, doubled the joy you've always brought us, fulfilled your lifelong dreams, made new records and broke your own records. I'm not even Argentine but you've spurred me to permanently chant: "Soy hincha de la Selección, La aliento con el corazón Ganamos la tercera con Lionel Queremos ser campeones otra vez" Tonight is not just another final, Muchacho. Tonight is not just about the hunt for another trophy, Lionel. Tonight is about the compression of a 2-decade story line from 2006 to 2026. All the tears, heartbreaks, all the doubts & how you repeatedly resurrected with no points left to prove. We might not have existed in the times of Shakespeare, Alexander the Great, Michangelo, Plato, Isaac Newton - but it's been the absolute privilege of our lives to have existed while you did, the absolute honor of our lives to have been your audience. Long after stadiums rot into the ground in silence, and goals get forgotten - we will always remember how you made us feel. One day when we're all frail and rottening in our grandpa era, our grandchildren will feel electric surges just from touching us - and it will be difficult for us to explain that it was your gift to us 70 years back. Maybe your last dance, maybe one more dance - but we're privileged to be dancing with you again, Mi Capitan. 🐐 🇦🇷

This is top 10 one of the things I have ever watched in my life. Ever. Top 5 for football content. This is exactly how I feel 😂😂😂😂. 📷 willy_kanga on IG. PS: This will either crack you up or crack you!

I photographed these images for the launch of Tuffman by @adekunleGOLD

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End of an era

From hating Messi to tears! All of you will cry one after the other! Jesus is King!

Messi played over 120 minutes in a gruelling encounter, scored one, helped create two others, and somehow there are fans disputing his Man of the Match. The same crowd that applauded an honorary one handed to a passenger with 25 touches, in a game won only after he was removed. Messi is where he is because the world has always asked more of him than it ever asked of any footballer, dead or alive. He keeps answering.

Na God say make Messi no dey talk like Mohammed Ali. lol. There’d have been no debate about anything. After the Algeria game: I am the greatest. Cristiano is not the greatest. Ogunmepon can’t score no World Cup hatty at almost 40. He doesn’t have a World Cup. Mbappe is okay. But I won 5 ballon d’ors at his current age. I will give him the other 3 and he still won’t have as many ballon d’ors as me by the time he is 40. I am the greatest. No one has ever been this good for this long. I have seen Ronaldo, the real Ronaldo, do it. He was on fire. Two world Cups, you can’t be more Ronaldo than that. Maradona is a legend, killed it in Napoli too. Pele touched 3 World Cups, you can’t sneer at that. They call us the trinity, I may be the youngest, but I am their father. Cristiano had a spark when he started, he is all about the tap ins now. He couldn’t even start at the World Cup four years ago. Wasn’t it Morocco that…never mind. Qatar wasn’t my crowning glory, it was a gift for the fans, haters and lovers alike. I am the greatest. The one who won what each of them won at least once, and then won a lot more. None of them can say that. I am top of goals. I am top of assists. I get compared with the best of them scorers. I get compared with the best of the midfielders. I am the standard of football excellence. The unit of measurement. I am one of one. When I am done, there will be none like me. I am the greatest. You know this, your mama knows this. I am Jordan and LeBron in one. Serena and the big 3 rolled into a body. No Tom and Jerry, but Brady and Rice. I am the greatest. I never said that before I knew I was. But you and I know it now, I am the greatest. The truth and the Messi!

@DearS_o_n Big Congratulations 🎊 👏 to me, Stanley... We made it, Lord I'm grateful 🙏🏾