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Messi's 'Argentina World Champions' Image Becomes Most-Liked Instagram Post, Surpasses World's Egg


Tue 20 Dec 2022 | 06:47 PM
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Argentina National Football team top star Lionel Messi achieved a new milestone after getting the FIFA World Cup for his country. This milestone is related to social media as the Paris Saint-Germain star's image of "Argentina world champions" overtook the image of the egg as the most-liked picture in the history of Instagram. 

Until now, Messi's image got more than 62 million likes, on the other hand, the egg had more than 56 million likes. 

Messi captioned the photo: "WORLD CHAMPIONS!!!!!!! I dreamed it so many times, I wanted it so much that I still haven't fallen, I can't believe it......"

He added: "Thank you very much to my family, to all who support me and also to all who believed in us. We demonstrate once again that Argentines when we fight together and united we are capable of achieving what we set out to do.

'The merit belongs to this group, which is above individualities, it is the strength of all fighting for the same dream."

After the top football event, Messi's account on Instagram surpassed 402 million followers.

The recent photo of Messi also surpassed the likes of the top-trending photo of Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo ahead FIFA World Cup.

The image was an advert for Louis Vuitton ahead of the event in which the Portuguese star and Messi were seen playing chess. The post had more than 41 million likes.

Ronaldo is still the most-followed person on Instagram with 519 million.

Last month he became the first person ever to reach 500 million followers on the social media site.