Messi’s World Cup Winning Photo Beats Egg To Take Instagram Record

• Lionel Messi has won the World Cup for the first time in his career after Argentina's win over France
• The Paris Saint-Germain forward posted his photo with the World Cup on Instagram and has gotten the highest likes
• The 2019 post of an egg by Chris Godfrey aimed to rack up the most likes so far on the Instagram platform

Lionel Messi's photo of him lifting the 2022 FIFA World Cup is now the most liked picture in the history of social media platform, Instagram, thereby overtaking the image of an egg.

The Paris Saint-Germain forward and his teammates last Sunday, December 18, had a long day on the pitch before beating France on penalties to win the 2022 World Cup.

Messi has now finally won the World Cup and many fans all over the world are celebrating the seven-time Ballon d'Or winner who is expected not to feature in the competition again.

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Argentina in the final rose to a 2-goal lead against France, but they allowed the Europeans to come back in the 80th minute with Mbappe netting a brace.

Messi also scored a brace, but Mbappe got an hat-trick for the match to be forced into penalties with Argentina winning 4-2.

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The former Barcelona captain took to his official Instagram page to share photo of him with the title and millions of people have liked it.

See the photo below

Messi's post has racked up a staggering 57 million likes, with the forward also surpassing 402million followers on the social media platform.

The record for likes was previously held by Chris Godfrey, who uploaded a photo of an egg in January 2019.

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Barcelona enter trouble with fans

Earlier, Sports Brief had reported how Some Barcelona fans are angry with the club after they felt the Catalan giants disrespected some of their players with a Lionel Messi tweet during the World Cup final.

Barcelona’s Twitter account tweeted an Argentine flag after Lionel Messi scored in the final to give La Albiceleste the lead against France which led to a backlash from fans.

Many responses argued that it was unjust of the club to tweet this given that they had no Argentine players competing in the final but have two French players, Ousmane Dembele and Jules Kounde.

Messi who spent 17 years at Barcelona before joining Paris Saint-Germain in 2021, also scored in extra-time to take his total tally at the 2022 World Cup to 7 goals.