Officially, Lionel Messi’s post lifting the World Cup became the most liked post in Instagram history. All the info here!
Two days after Lionel Messi He uploaded a post to his Instagram celebrating having finally won the world Cup, the publication of the dearest player has just become the post with the most likes in the history of the social network. At the time of writing this note, the post has 62,804,844 likessurpassing by 5,354,055 I like you to the image that had the record.
In case you don’t know who the former champion was, we’re just going to remind you that a few years ago you probably left a like on a post that was a photo of an egg. The only thing this user wanted to achieve is for the egg to break the record for the most liked post in the history of instagram. The one who was replaced by this strange image was Kylie Jennerwho by uploading the first photo of her daughter managed to 18 million likes. The egg managed to get the position with 56 million likes, but now our dear Messi just snatched the title of the post.
Something that makes a lot of sense is that this publication of Messi collect so many likes. The Argentine player was finally able to lift the cup after four World Cups, being his fifth, and last, participation the charm. After one of the most heart-stopping finals for those who were watching it, and for those who were following the game in another way, Argentina managed to become champion of the World for the third time in history, thus earning the third star on his shield.
But the likes on the post of Messi It is just one of the records that the footballer broke. As confirmed by the official website of the Guinness recordwith his participation in the final of the world Cup broke the following records:
- The Player with the most prizes of Man of the Match he won, being 11 the ones he accumulated
- The first person to make assists in five different finals of the world Cup
- Person with the most appearances in the world Cup as captain, being 19 the occasions in which Messi had the role
- The player who appeared the most times in the world Cupbeing 5 editions in which he participated.
the captain of Argentina he managed to break many records before retiring from the national team. Despite Messi confirmed that this edition of the world Cup It would be his last, the footballer reported in recent interviews that he will play a few matches with the national team as champions before officially retiring. Of course, all Argentines want him to come back for a world more but Messi already informed that there are many years to go and that by the time it arrives 2026 He will be old enough to play.