Guinness World Records announced on Tuesday morning that a flurry of pictures celebrating Argentina's World Cup victory uploaded by the soccer star had gained 61 million likes and growing, making them the most-liked Instagram post of all time.
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Photos of Messi and his Argentine National Team teammates celebrating their World Cup victory after eliminating France in a penalty shootout on Sunday are highlighted in the article. After Messi posted the images, the post immediately broke the previous record-holder, an account called @world_record_egg, whose image of a single egg has 57 million likes after a campaign to make it the most-liked post on the site went popular in 2019.
According to Social Graph, Messi has increased his Instagram following by 25.8 million since the World Cup began, a 200% increase from the previous month. Messi has overtaken Kylie Jenner to become the second most followed person on Instagram with 403 million followers.
Messi established several global records throughout the competition, according to Guinness, including the one for the most-liked Instagram post. With the victory in the championship match, Messi overtook all other soccer players to claim the titles of most FIFA World Cup appearances (26), most matches as a team captain (19), most World Cup Man of the Match awards (11) and most playoff appearances (five), as well as the demarcation of being the first player to record an assist at five different World Cup competitions.
Even though that Messi's Instagram post received the most likes ever, Cristiano Ronaldo, who Messi fights against on the field, still has 519 million followers and is the site's most popular user. After nearly two decades of playing internationally, Messi, one of the greatest soccer players of all time, finally captured his first World Cup championship on Sunday. The 35-year-old Messi had said that the championship game would be his final contest with the Argentine national side. It's emotional for me to end my World Cup career playing in a final," he stated.
According to our calculations, Messi made $130 million this year, making him the highest-paid athlete in the world.
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