NNostalgia and excitement were in the air after Lionel Messi shared a series of photos posing inside the Camp Nou on his official Instagram account, bringing great joy to Barcelona and its football fans.
However, with this post, the captain of the Argentina national team ended up stealing the record from his eternal rival on the field, Cristiano Ronaldo.
Messi celebrates couple’s romantic evening in Barcelona
Messi sets a new record.
Messi is in Ecce with Lionel Scaloni’s team for a friendly against Angola on Friday, November 14, but he also used his free time to visit the club where he won 35 titles in 17 seasons and retired in August 2021.
A photo of the Argentina international and his Inter Miami teammate Rodrigo de Paul has gone viral in just over 24 hours.
“Last night I returned to a place that I remember dearly. A place where I was so happy, a place where you made me feel a thousand times more like the happiest person in the world. I hope that I can go back someday, and not only to say goodbye to the player I never was,” Lionel wrote, with thousands of fans reacting with emotion and six photos of him being spread around the world.
In fact, Leo’s post, which has amassed over 27.8 million likes and 820,000 comments as of this writing, ranks as one of the 20 most interacted with posts in Instagram history.
In doing so, he surpassed the record set by Cristiano Ronaldo for his post about Portugal lifting the Nations League trophy after defeating Spain in June, which at the time had 23 million likes.
The truth is that this post is accompanied by another monumental post by Leo, which ranks #1 in the platform’s history today. His photo from the 2022 World Cup, when they defeated France on penalties to become champions for the first time, received over 74 million likes.
A photo of an egg followed by a photo of Messi sleeping with the World Cup. However, a photo of him playing chess for Louis Vuitton made it into the top five, receiving over 41.5 million likes and coming in at number four.
In fifth place was a photo taken of Messi and the World Cup on a plane, with 41.1 million likes.
