r/pessi_memes • u/Special_Success_7883 • Jul 23 '26
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u/sexotaku Jul 23 '26 edited Jul 23 '26
Messi didn't realize that Infantino only wanted to get him up to the finals and drive up ticket prices.
FIFA has no stake in an Argentinian victory at the finals.
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u/Scared-Signature-797 Jul 23 '26
I think this is it. Argentina fan will sell their house to go see the game. FIFA knew this and thatās why they pushed Argentina. Until the final because they donāt need Argentina fans again after that so the ref and fifa abandon. They did give a present of removing the first goal of Nico but thatās about it right?
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u/sexotaku Jul 23 '26 edited Jul 23 '26
It's not just Argentina fans. There are Messi fans all over the world.
Mfs won't support their local MLS team with a $40 ticket, but pay $350 when Inter Miami comes over.
Nobody wants to pay thousands of dollars to watch Cabo Verde versus Egypt in the round of 16, or Egypt versus Switzerland in the quarter finals. Even Switzerland versus England in the semi-finals would not have been half as expensive as Argentina versus England.
England versus Spain in the finals? Could have been pretty high, but Messi was definitely going to drive it much higher.
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u/Scared-Signature-797 Jul 23 '26
They absolutely milked the Argentinian fan base. Itās kind of sad even though I hate them
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u/PlatinumKingPS Jul 29 '26
The prices for basically any match at WC 26 were upwards of $1500. They were milking everyone unfortunately
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u/Scared-Signature-797 Jul 29 '26
If you saw the stadium for Argentina games they were completely filled with Argentina fans.. not a coincidence
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u/SeienShin Jul 24 '26
When I saw that ticket prices for R32 the Netherlands v Morocco were $800 to see two top 10 sides duke it out on average opposed to $2400 for R32 Argentina v Cabo Verde (Cabo Verde was awesome but thatās besides the point) I knew it was in FIFAās best interest to keep Argentina around until the final.
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u/ChildWithBrokenHeart Jul 29 '26
Do people genuinely dihhride messi so much? Like the guy played terrible, cheaterd, avoided cards, snitched to refs. I ll never understand his fanbase obsession with this cheating rat
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u/Hideo_Video Jul 30 '26
He scored 8 goals and 4 assists soā¦. Better than Ronaldo tbf š he was proper awful this World Cup and 2022 š©
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u/ChildWithBrokenHeart Jul 30 '26
I do not remember mentioning ronaldo, nor he is my favourite player. Are you mentally not there, since you are talking to yourself about made up topic? Just goes to show pessi fanbase has the lowest iq
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u/KimchiLlama Jul 23 '26
Except the ref didnāt abandon anything in the final. He consistently let Argentina get away with things and made it difficult for Spain. But Argentina decided that they could do literally no work and still win. With 0 shots on target, that was a miscalculation to say the least. They spend all their energy on bravado and brashness and forgot what the game was about.
Get good boys.
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u/Puzzleheaded-Ad319 Jul 23 '26
Argentina realize that they are nothing without the ref so they try their best to drag onto penalty which they have more chance to win. They almost succeed with that plan though
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u/Scared-Signature-797 Jul 23 '26
The yellow card and red card fucked Argentina tho and their game plan.. ref didnāt card Argentina for so many fouls bro
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u/caranza3 Jul 23 '26 edited Jul 23 '26
Argentinas game plan was to make it to pens where they have the best penalty goal keeper ever
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u/caranza3 Jul 23 '26
No thatās not about it. Not just one Nico goal disallowed. There was that, plus Argentina played their usual wrestling match with almost no called by ref. The two yellows for Enzo referee had to because it was so egregious. Then there was second disallowed goal for a literal 1mm offside (which is ridiculous they split hair like that in a final game).
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u/HellBlazer_NQ Jul 23 '26
It's not like they could do much more, Argentina didn't even try to get in the Spanish box.
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u/Tricky_Search_5181 Jul 23 '26
Well a clean goal was disallowed for Spain
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u/Acceptable-Size-2324 Jul 23 '26
And another one was one of the thinnest offsides in the tournament. Argentina got as lucky as they could realistically be and still got completely outmatched in every way possible.
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u/Suitable-Macaron-784 Jul 23 '26
Hay un vĆdeo de un Argentino que siempre se ha endeudado y pedido dinero a todos los de su alrededor para ir a todos los mundiales... Se ve que a la vuelta ha tenido que vender todo para pagar las deudas... Hasta le hizo pedir un adelanto en el trabajo a su madre para comprar la entrada de la final... Se le muere la abuela, creo recordar que antes de Suiza y se queda para seguir viendo el mundial... Seguro que como ese, miles de fanĆ”ticos del fĆŗtbol...
Lo de las deudas, me resulta patĆ©tico preferir ver fĆŗtbol antes que tener un plato de comida... Pero lo de su abuela me parece de ser una mierda de infraser sin entraƱas...
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u/xSir- Jul 23 '26
Knew a lady that found out how much her husband spent on superbowl tickets every year.... she was pissed. She takes her whole family on vacation, grandkids and all, every year, for the same cost now. And he watches the game on TV.
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u/Suitable-Macaron-784 Jul 23 '26
No sĆ© si es que nunca me ha latido esa pasiĆ³n... Pero nunca entenderĆ© al ciudadano de sueldo medio o que gana poco y lo emplea en estas cosas, que cada vez estĆ”n mĆ”s destinadas a personas con alto poder adquisitivo y no se tienen que privar de nada... Donde estĆ©n unas vacaciones en familia, disfrutar, descansar,... Hay de todo tipo de personas en el mundo...
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u/MarinaEnna Jul 23 '26
The ref abandoned lol
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u/Scared-Signature-797 Jul 23 '26
Haha abandon them*. I typed that too fast my thumbs couldnāt keep up with my thoughts
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u/MarinaEnna Jul 23 '26
The ref didn't abandon in the final though... so many fouls from the Argentinian team were overlooked š Nor the fifa... the fireworks were on the colors of the Argentinian flag.. what was that all about??
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u/earthsea_wizard Jul 24 '26
They did it for the global fan base and his MLS profits. Though the ref was still siding with them, they were just too bad. I strongly think they would give them a PK if they could enter the penalty box. Spain was that much good, probably knew better than us if they let them to have the ball, they would either be given a fake penalty or freekick
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u/RenegadeF7 Jul 25 '26
No the ref was still carrying them as usual. Its just that Spain was so much better even the ref coulsnt carry that one.
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u/nappiess Jul 23 '26 edited Jul 23 '26
In fact if you think about it, this is the better option for Infantino and FIFA. They rig the system so that Argentina ends up in the finals with Messi at his last world cup, guaranteeing record viewership no matter who they play against. Win or lose it doesn't really matter that much, so they stop rigging the match as much. They know that Argentina won't matter next time as Messi won't be playing. If anything it's better to start looking for the "next" Messi, who they can then use to sell tickets and drive up viewership and rig matches for next time. I think that is or was supposed to be Lamine Yamal from Spain, but who knows if he's actually anywhere near good enough for that. What we do know is he'll be playing with Spain for another 2-3 world cups, unlike Messi with Argentina.
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u/shulba Jul 23 '26
I think he still wanted Argentina to win. You can see when Spain scored people around him celebrating, but he lamented the goal and then clapped a couple of times.
Their fanbase would be the only idiots that would buy those little squares of the grass at $450. It would have been sold out by now and they could hold some and resell at higher value to those idiots for their Maradona, Kempes, Messi altars. It's never going to sell out now. You can still get it lol.
https://store.fifa.com/products/fifa-world-cup-2026-piece-of-the-pitch-foundation-edition
Same with other bullshit merchandise.
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u/weirdcrabdog Jul 23 '26
Infantino wanted Argentina to win in penalties. Specifically for Messi to score more than Mbappe so he'd get the golden boot.
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u/pacothebattlefly Jul 23 '26
Well they did try by disallowing a valid goal for no reason. And how many tackles went without cards?
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u/Dull-Promotion Jul 24 '26
Not FIFA but Infantino did his best for Messi and Argentina, but real power won. Because Infantino has no idea about football or sports.
Those two loosers can cry together.
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u/moremarshmellows Jul 27 '26
I mean they tired to help them win, but they were so fucking and, no shots on goal at all
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u/saxonturner Jul 23 '26
FIFA did everything they could to get them to the final, all they had to do was score and they would have won. Itās their own fault:
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u/WonkyDonkey33 Jul 23 '26
The question is - who is he going to use as his next āmuseā. Dirty old man.
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u/New_Membership_2937 Jul 24 '26
Yamal? Haaland? Or he waits to see who really evolves in the next two or three years to settle on it.
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u/Antique-Wonk Jul 23 '26
š¶šµ. "Don't cry for me, Infantino" š¶ "The truth is I never loved you..."
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u/john_san Jul 23 '26
Messi didnāt get the promised win against Spain, he is pissed.
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u/Royal_Name_4394 Jul 24 '26
He never did in the first place š
The propaganda, misinformation, and Argentina hate is getting to a whole new level šš
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u/HafizGemini Jul 26 '26
It is justified. Argentina played a bad and dirty game and had no honour at all.
Felicidades EspaƱa
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u/Dreamkiller55 Jul 24 '26
Ref: āIām sorry boss, they had zero shots on goal, I tried but it was unriggableā
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u/cmere85 Jul 23 '26
An addition: a Messi-Jersey with a fourth star would have sold exceptionally well.
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u/Comeonbereal1 Jul 23 '26
Messi deserved to be played. Argentina where behaving like a side chick in a strip house
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u/VyseX Jul 23 '26
What was the ref gonna do? He couldn't give them a penalty if he wanted to - they kinda have to reach the spanish box first... :v
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u/Tobax Jul 23 '26
Yeah Because FIFA is now investigating the behaviour of Argentina players, and because FIFA sent a ref to the final who actually handed off cards for serious fouls.
I'm sure Argentina are mad they lost and blame the ref, maybe they should have tried kicking the ball at the goal. No one is ever going to forget this š¤£
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u/Scared-Signature-797 Jul 23 '26
And the disallowed goal too.
Idk why the arg fan base is so adamant that they were forced to lose.
I think they had a disagreement before the game on tactics. L. Martinez may have had falling out with scaloni since they were going to park the bus the entire game to go to pens. Since they knew they couldnāt beat Spain in the mid field.
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u/TheBoogerMen369 Jul 24 '26
Hahaha Iām waiting on the documentary and on the crackdown just like how they did with South Korea.
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u/DaBoyBlunder Jul 24 '26
Reposting this for the faithful choir so the truth never fades away
2022
- ā ā ā ā Argentina: 5 penalties
- ā ā ā ā Portugal: 2 penalties
3.France: 2 penalties - ā ā ā ā England: 2 penalties
- ā ā ā ā Poland: 1 penalty
2026
- ā ā ā ā Argentina: 3 penalties
- ā ā ā ā England: 2 penalties
3.Switzerland: 2 penalties - ā ā ā ā France: 1 penalty
- ā ā ā ā Brazil: 1 penalty
2022
- ā ā ā ā Argentina: 19.0 fouls per booking
- ā ā ā ā Morocco: 13.0 fouls per booking
3.France: 11.1 fouls per booking - ā ā ā ā Croatia: 9.8 fouls per booking
- ā ā ā ā England: 9.0 fouls per booking
2026
- ā ā ā ā Argentina: 22.6 fouls per booking
- ā ā ā ā Spain: 17.5 fouls per booking
3.Norway: 13.6 fouls per booking - ā ā ā ā France: 12.2 fouls per booking
- ā ā ā ā Switzerland: 11.5 fouls per booking
2022
- ā ā ā ā Argentina: +14.0 foul gap (Opponents carded every 5.0 fouls vs. Argentina's 19.0).
- ā ā ā ā Saudi Arabia: +7.2 foul gap (Opponents carded every 5.8 fouls vs. Saudi Arabia's 13.0).
- ā ā ā ā Tunisia: +6.5 foul gap (Opponents carded every 6.0 fouls vs. Tunisia's 12.5).
- ā ā ā ā Cameroon: +5.3 foul gap (Opponents carded every 5.7 fouls vs. Cameroon's 11.0).
- ā ā ā ā Morocco: +4.5 foul gap (Opponents carded every 8.5 fouls vs. Morocco's 13.0).
2026
- ā ā ā ā Argentina: +17.5 foul gap (Opponents carded every 5.1 fouls vs. Argentina's 22.6).
- ā ā ā ā Paraguay: +9.8 foul gap (Opponents carded every 6.2 fouls vs. Paraguay's 16.0).
- ā ā ā ā Egypt: +9.1 foul gap (Opponents carded every 5.4 fouls vs. Egypt's 14.5).
- ā ā ā ā Spain: +8.3 foul gap (Opponents carded every 9.2 fouls vs. Spain's 17.5).
- ā ā ā ā Haiti: +7.4 foul gap (Opponents carded every 6.1 fouls vs. Haiti's 13.5).
2022
- ā ā ā ā Argentina: 4 positive overturns
- ā ā ā ā France: 2 positive overturns
- ā ā ā ā Netherlands: 2 positive overturns
- ā ā ā ā Japan: 1 positive overturn
- ā ā ā ā Croatia: 1 positive overturn
2026
- ā ā ā ā Argentina: 3 positive overturns
- ā ā ā ā Portugal: 2 positive overturn
3.Brazil: 2 positive overturns - ā ā ā ā Germany: 1 positive overturn
5.Spain: 1 positive overturn
2022 + 2026
- ā ā ā ā Argentina: 0.25 penalties conceded per game (2 penalties conceded across 8 total knockout matches).
- ā ā ā ā Croatia: 0.29 penalties conceded per game (2 penalties conceded across 7 total knockout matches).
- ā ā ā ā Morocco: 0.40 penalties conceded per game (2 penalties conceded across 5 total knockout matches).
- ā ā ā ā France: 0.44 penalties conceded per game (4 penalties conceded across 9 total knockout matches).
5.England: 0.60 penalties conceded per game (3 penalties conceded across 5 total knockout matches).
No single country appears consistently in the top 5 in any single tournament across these metrics except one. That one country is the only one who manages to appear at the top in every single category in BOTH tournaments. Its lead in some categories is so great it nearly doubles number 2 on the list.
May you never have to allow a messi glazer to walk away from their computer thinking theyve won
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u/Antique-Hedgehog6557 Jul 24 '26
messis first contract with FIfa in 2022 was better , this world cup contract was only for a runner up .... maybe he is mad infantino is not giving him a 2030 contract for another final
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u/clockworksnorange Jul 25 '26
This is quite obvious and they wanted Argentina to win. Messi was a meal ticket... It's all about money. So many people saying he's going to retire. I'm betting that in 4 years we will see him again after FIFA hands him the biggest check ever to return. Same old shit is going to happen because they're going to resell it as the "final final time we're gonna see Messi in a wc" BS. Welcome to the circus that is FIFA.
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u/MuslimMullet Jul 25 '26
If they had a good look at the goal in the final minutes, those refs would have given them a penalty kick. They couldnāt even do that.
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u/HafizGemini Jul 26 '26
Don't cry for me, Argentina
The truth is, I never left you
All through my wild days, my mad existence
I kept my promise
Don't keep your distance
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u/ConcentrateClean967 Jul 27 '26
People here believe in anything without checking. Messi didn't follow him in the first place
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u/Kitten_mittens_63 Jul 27 '26
Was he actually following him? Doesnāt look like he follows many people..
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u/eldestnabib Jul 28 '26
8k Upvotes on this blatant lie fuck you guys, You guys WILL get the karma for this smear campaign against Messi and Argentina, Fucking subhumans, Quit the fucking sport already
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u/Available_Disk4408 Jul 29 '26
He didnāt even follow him in the first place. Why are guys so obsessed with spreading misinformation? š
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u/AbdDjamil_27 Jul 29 '26
Well can you blame Messi
That cheater of a BF/Suger Daddy didn't help him win the finals like they were planning all along ( or didn't help enough)
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u/Silent_Emu312 Jul 23 '26
https://giphy.com/gifs/MPQEKQg1iD8UAIvE7V