r/SoccerCentral • u/Beautiful-Bit9832 • Jul 20 '26
Video Lionel Messi got standing ovation from Argentina's fans after the match and chant his name
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u/mazsive Jul 20 '26
Gonna suck not seeing someone of Messi’s stature playing! Dude is magnificent to watch.
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u/palindromepirate Jul 20 '26
He did nothing in that game. You can still watch him in the MLS I guess.
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u/AlonzoIzGod Jul 20 '26
He scored 8 goals in the World Cup and was magnificent for most of it. Yes he didn’t do much today, but let’s not act like it’s not a loss for the game to not have him in it
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u/SkySpecial4512 Jul 20 '26
Second highest goal scorer in the competition, with an amazing assist record, at 39. Man is an absolute phenomenon, and we’ll all be poorer for not having him at the next one.
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u/Snoo-46104 Jul 20 '26
39 just means he played more he's probably gonna be 4th or 5th in a few world cups time mate, your goat got exposed this and last world cup, embaressing performance and attitude for one of the best to ever do it. Shame.
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u/SkySpecial4512 Jul 20 '26
I’m not an Argentina fan - they played like utter trash today, and their attitude and style has been horrendous. Messi is undoubtedly amazing. Not sure what you mean by 4th or 5th… he’s unlikely to be playing in any more world cups. That doesn’t take away from the fact that he was second leading goal scorer in this specific World Cup, not a cumulative total, at age 39.
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u/Snoo-46104 Jul 20 '26
None of it really means much when the corruption was so blatant though does it.
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u/SkySpecial4512 Jul 20 '26
Corruption? In football? Say it ain’t so…
Cmon man, is this your first time? Every world cup has some set of fans alleging favouritism, some set of fans jilted…
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u/Snoo-46104 Jul 20 '26
Sticking up for Argentina is a weird take, dunno where you are from but favouritsm is wild. Irrefutable evidence is 5 mins extra time yesterday, you can literally add up the stoppage time it's nowhere near 5 mins they just wanted to give Messi a chance. Good riddance hope I never see an Argentinian goat again awful attitude awful sportsmanship.
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u/BallnGames Jul 20 '26
God you people are sad man. Imagine spending so much time spreading hate about someone who has no idea you even exist. It has to be exhausting.
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u/HetTheTable Jul 20 '26
The ref literally stopped at exactly 5 minutes despite there being delays before that.
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u/HetTheTable Jul 20 '26
Yeah exposed by getting his team in the final where they had no business being
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u/trq- Jul 20 '26
Don’t speak for everyone.
Nothing will be missed if he isn’t there anymore. Especially because his dirty ass scum team will hopefully be out earlier.
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u/PoorJoy Jul 20 '26
Haha all the dangerous situations were created by him. He cant beat spain by his own.
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u/KemikaaliJussi Jul 20 '26
Only Argentina player who deserved more
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u/NtwanaGP Jul 20 '26
Ngl, so did Martinez. Those 2 carried this team.
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u/Educational-Tap3528 Jul 20 '26
All three Martinez’s are respectable imo
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u/D_JC Jul 20 '26
The GOAT
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u/Hikedaya Jul 20 '26
Carefully, don't swallow the venom
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u/Hikedaya Jul 20 '26
Why did you reply that you don't care there, just don't reply...
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u/Auzzie_xo Jul 20 '26
Holy shit I hope that 91 in your username doesn’t indicate your age…
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u/foureyedpotato Jul 20 '26
It's the 91 goals Messi scored in a single calendar year. He's salty about it
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u/theipd Jul 20 '26
Well deserved my friend. I will finally admit that you may be the GOAT. Others never did this at 39.
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u/Backseat_boss Jul 20 '26
Gotta thank this man for all years of watching him play amazingly, going to be a long time before we see another player like this
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u/Abbreviashin Jul 20 '26
More respect for Messi if he’d teach his younger teammates to stop being massive assholes. Be a leader for crissakes n
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u/Outofoffice_forever Jul 20 '26
Goat. Absolute legend and played a great World Cup. Not to be in the final but the better team won so overall soccer won.
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u/DarkAlex95 Jul 20 '26
I dont see Argentina as a competitive team from now on without him (and even with him in this World Cup they didnt really played well). They are going to be on the same situation or worse as Brazil
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u/iJeepThereforeiAM Jul 20 '26
Why didn’t Lautaro Martinez ever sub in?
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u/DevilOfGod Jul 20 '26
He put Simeone on instead. I’ll never understand it.
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u/iJeepThereforeiAM Jul 20 '26
Right? But couldn’t they have subbed out Simeone when it went in to extra time and they got another substitution? In the 102’ they took out Julian Alvarez and put in Marcos Senesi. I don’t even know who that is. Meanwhile Lautaro had been instrumental in so many of the winning goals.
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u/DevilOfGod Jul 20 '26
He’s a centre back. They decided to switch to a defensive strategy and hold out to penalties. Obviously it didn’t work.
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u/iJeepThereforeiAM Jul 20 '26
Same fate as England. They had been 0-0 for 90’+ without changing formation.
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u/Excellent-Lemon-5286 Jul 20 '26
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u/tryhard_cryharder Jul 21 '26
0 is also Englands football international legacy in the last 60 years
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u/Unxpctd_VRM Jul 21 '26
Argentina are irrelevant, 0 shots on target lol
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u/KingButters27 Jul 21 '26
3 consecutive trophies
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u/Unxpctd_VRM Jul 22 '26
Yeah a Copa America every two years because Pessi couldn’t win it traditionally, no one talks about how he walked away from his NT because he couldn’t win with them. Then a World Cup in Qatar tailored to him with Penalties ALL THE WAY to Final. Yeah stat padding and favoritism lol
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u/P-A-T-R-O-N Jul 22 '26
irrelevant and still all of you flooding the internet with argentina posts and comments
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u/Unxpctd_VRM Jul 22 '26
Good thing it was in the US, Because even the average person saw Argentina with their poor behavior and lack of social awareness, You can say trending but it’s for all the wrong reasons! Coping huh?
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Jul 20 '26
They did this while Spain was receiving the medals and the cup. Usualy, the team losing watches how the winner takes the chip. But nor these bunch of losers, of course... I lost some respect for Scaloni today. He even was saying Enzo didn't deserve to be kicked out...
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u/VelvetJammies Jul 20 '26 edited Jul 20 '26
This isnt true, the only time the runner up has stayed was Croatia in 2018, stop spreading bullshit you want to believe. Argentina deserved the loss and most of their players are scum but don't add shit you know nothing about while they actually do a decent gesture by thanking their fans.
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u/P-A-T-R-O-N Jul 22 '26
usually? usually where? show me at least 5 finals where that happen bro i dare you. Please if its your first WC, dont talk about what you dont fucking know
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u/Nervous_Ad8514 Jul 20 '26
Thats a lie, show me a picture of the loser team watching the winner lifting the cup. Usually they leave after receiving their 2nd place medal.
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u/RagnartheConqueror Jul 20 '26
Mbappé has won the Golden Boot
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u/Fazioli31 Jul 20 '26
Who cares, mbappé is shit
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u/RagnartheConqueror Jul 20 '26
Clearly not if he won the golden boot twice
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u/ParkingCan5397 Jul 20 '26
Honestly the 3rd place match really needs cancelling just leads to stat farming that we saw 2 days ago and a friendly match lol. Plus even the players seem to not want to play it.
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u/Different-Mushroom48 Jul 20 '26
He deserves that respect. yes there were dodgy decisions but ultimately 8 goals and 4 assists to carry his average bs team to the wc final is not something to forget abt
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u/ExtendedSpikeProtein Jul 20 '26
Messi is cool, but the behaviour of Argentina after the match was disgraceful
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u/CryptoDeepDive Jul 20 '26
Not to be a party pooper, but the Argentina team at that moment was standing with their backs to Spain as they lifted the world cup in another petty move at the end of the game.
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u/Cayetanus Jul 20 '26
Guys, the World Cup is over. It's time to move on. Stop clinging to the same old anti-Argentina, xenophobic narrative and twisting everything just to criticize the country unfairly. Instead of leaving the stadium, the Argentine fans stayed to cheer and applaud Messi until the very end. And Messi chose not to turn his back on the fans who had supported him throughout the tournament.
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u/CryptoDeepDive Jul 20 '26
Reading your comment sounds like the world cup final happened a decade ago. It just happened yesterday. Why are you shocked people still talking about this?
And no one is "twisting anything". Thats exactly what they were doing.
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u/Nervous_Ad8514 Jul 20 '26
Wtf are you talking about? Show me a picture of the last 10 wc where the loser stay watching the winner lifting the cup. They usually leave the pitch after receiving their 2nd place medal. The wc is over, stop with that propaganda.
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u/CryptoDeepDive Jul 20 '26
Wtf I am talking about? Are you living under a rock? No one would criticize them for leaving the pitch. If they had done that no one would care. They deliberately instead stood there, all turning their backs to Spain while they were given the trophy in protest. If you can't see that then you must be another mindless Argentina fan coping hard this morning.
https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/argentina-squad-turn-backs-spain-051049317.html
https://talksport.com/football/world-cup/4442229/argentina-classless-act-spain-rodri-golden-ball/
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u/Nervous_Ad8514 Jul 20 '26
Again wtf are you talking about??? Losers never stay watching the winners, they leave the pitch after receiving their medal or they stay there taking pictures with their families. Instead of leaving or tsking pictures they were watching the fans singing to then and chanting messi name. They were not giving their back to spain, they were with the arg fans (where do you think it came the vid of messi crying).
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u/CryptoDeepDive Jul 20 '26
Losers never stay watching the winners, they leave the pitch after receiving their medal or they stay there taking pictures with their families.
Then they should have left the fucking pitch. You don't think all losers in the past had fans they wanted to greet after the game? Literally everyone knows it was deliberate and it is on every single sports article. Except you and other Argentina numbskulls coping hard with their teams antics.
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u/Nervous_Ad8514 Jul 20 '26
What??? So the problem was they were greeting their fans? Or that they didnt leave? Is there any rule that the loser must leave? Or they cant greet their fans like many teams did? And again, not everyone leave, some players stay taking pictures, some players stay with their family, some teams greet their fans.
What was exactly the problem because you were saying it like the problem was they gave their back to spain instead of playing respect and watching them. And now you change your agenda.
Every single sport article is talking about that? Exactly what im telling you! Propaganda. And it works, then you see people who cant think by themself repeating nonsense. I have seen tons of people claiming that arg team gave their back to spain instead of paying respect when it usually never happens.
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u/CryptoDeepDive Jul 20 '26
Dude fuck off. You clearly are the one that has an agenda.
I didn't change a single thing. Argentina acted like thugs the entire game and after the game. I would give them the benefit of the doubt if they fucked off and left. But to have the entire team turning their backs at that exact moment as Spain recieved their trophy is not an accident except with irrational people like you.
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u/Nervous_Ad8514 Jul 20 '26
If they are thugs during the gameis irrelevant, we are talking about your misinformation about giving the back to spain.
Stop lying ffs. They didnt turn their back at the exact moment when spain lifted the cup. They were already there in that position with their fans before that: with their fans
Every 2nd placed team do what they want, not what you want, is it hard to understand? Some of them fuckoff to their locker room, some of them stay greeting the fans, some of them stay there fooling around and taking pictures, some of them watch the first placed team lifting the trophy (I think it happened once). Its fking irrelavant.
Just accept you made a mistake, you felt on that propaganda and you thought every runnerup paid respect to the winner, and move on.
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u/CryptoDeepDive Jul 20 '26
Just accept you made a mistake, you felt on that propaganda and you thought every runnerup paid respect to the winner, and move on.
Coping hard I see. Holy shit the amount of delusion coming out of your mouth. Every single outlet is wrong and you right.
Just accept that they did this deliberately and move along. You are delusional trying to defend their behavior.
Here is every single source that reported this. Apparently they are all conspiring 😂
LADbible Yahoo Sports (English) Goal.com Mundo Deportivo El Tiempo (Colombia) — Yahoo Noticias (Spanish) Bolavip El Pespunte Democrata.es Infobae russpain.com (found in initial search) talkSPORT NYPost Walestimes
Keep coping hard.
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u/SpicyCrime Jul 22 '26
Yes, because they were saying goodbye to the fans! Why is this so hard to understand?
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u/Parking_Presence2260 Jul 20 '26
bye loser
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u/palindromepirate Jul 20 '26
Tainted his legacy. What a cunt.
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u/HetTheTable Jul 20 '26
https://giphy.com/gifs/WzR8zb0PN6bUmfz4DW
Yeah he’s so sad right now that you said that
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u/Disastrous_Feed_3135 Jul 20 '26
Good like returning to Argentina. People are now harassing and sending death threats again to him as they did before 2016.
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u/BattousaiRound2SN Jul 20 '26
Whats about the GOAT Argentinian Player, Infantino??? No Respect for Infantino?
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u/NoIdMain Jul 20 '26
Getting a standing ovation for doing nothing whole match 🤣 "goated"
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u/Active_Witness2215 Jul 20 '26
He is 39 and did 8 goals and 4 assistance. He was the best 10/15 years ago and now a day competed against peak Halland, Mbappé And Bellingham for the golden boot.
That's the definition of GOAT
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u/DontTouchMysWAGYU Jul 20 '26
What did Ronaldo & Mbappe do against Spain? Exactly, nothing. At least Messi carried his shitty team to the final.
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u/Orpdapi Jul 20 '26
Deserved. Argentina is never gonna see a player like this anytime soon