Messi's 2007 photos with baby Lamine Yamal resurface before World Cup final
What would be funny would be if Spain won and Lamine Yamal ran up to Messi with a bucket and was like tables turned
Mike Boylan-Kolchin31“Now it is you that is washed, grandpa”
🌈 Megs ✨12Here's an article from the Athletic about the photoshoot. www.nytimes.com/athletic/561...
Matt McGowan9Amazing. (Both the existence of the photo and your idea.)
Woj6This twist is going to require a lot of serious research to have the right memes ready for whoever wins. Going to have to look all the way back to Greek mythology and some sordid ancient histories for this one.
snowyd70.bsky.social6Lamine Yamal should bring a Palestinian flag with him too. Because of this.
zenweb.bsky.social2I don't care who wins as long as it's not Messi !!!
How cool that soccer greats Lionel Messi and Lamine Yamal met when the latter was 5 months old. Messi was a young Unicef ambassador and Yamal was, er, having a bath. Now Yamal is also a Unicef ambassador. Two soccer giants helping the world's kids!
Beatriz 🤍🩵🤍🐈⬛🔻🇵🇸🇱🇧12Messi sonriéndole a un asesino de niñas y Lamine apoyando la causa Palestina. Creo que no se parecen.
Gary Knowles11I'm a bit weirded out by this whole photo shoot.
aiteall.bsky.social11Messi is now, shamefully, a Trump whisperer.
Syd Barhey Esq. FCA. #FBPE10It'd be interesting to listen in on a political conversation between those two ...... Yamal is a vocal supporter of the Palestinian cause whereas Messi is an Israeli sympathiser. I've very quickly gone from huge respect for Messi, to none at all I'm afraid.
Ninguém se importa means Nobody cares2no, no, no bluesky has decided messi is a no-no, and you incur the wrath of the bot gods if you dare disturb the narrative! i might have posted something about it
Okay, so this is crazy. 🤯 In Event Horizon, a film from 1997, Sam Neill requested that the Australian flag on his character's uniform be replaced with a photo of Lionel Messi bathing the baby Lamine Yamal, the way he thought it should look in 2047! 👏👏👏
Colonel Q13When you make a joke on Bluesky
These two are about to face one another in the 2026 World Cup final. Lionel Messi x Lamine Yamal. nyti.ms/4psDTTo
Razzball31Seems slightly unfair, my money is on the baby
Il forno 🇺🇸 🇺🇦3Lamine Yamal is suddenly looking vulnerable.
nydeliveryguy.bsky.social2…. Why the fuck was this picture taken?
My My Hey Hey2As Jordan has said. Fu k em kids
Brian Morans1I bet the baby is a great dribbler.
Hustle Chillson322Imagine if a photo of LeBron James bathing baby Luka Donĉić surfaced
Tim Faklis9This being real blows my mind
Corinne Low2My favorite thing on the internet right now. (Charity photo shoot in Spain when Messi played for Barcelona).
Carowo2the amount of lore in this photo is insane. there is nothing on this planet like soccer. nothing.
Does Article 27 have a clause requiring Lionel Messi and Lamine Yamal to recreate this photo in the World Cup final? 🛁
BRAK AND BLUE3that'd be yellow on Lamine Yamal for removing his shirt
zenweb.bsky.social1Seems Messi prefers other photo opportunities with genocidal terrorist pigs these days !!! BOOOOOOOOOOO !!!
Amuse.1I kinda feel like a recreation of it with them as adults couldn’t be any weirder than the original.
why the fuck was messi washing lamine yamal as a baby
Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist57I didn't know footballers needed to work babysitting jobs
Norm Charlatan24Some people trick-or-treat for UNICEF, others wash babies.
Steve Tallantyre12Holding him by the ankle and dipping him in the River Styx.
Splunk11It benefits Messi to bathe every baby in case one day they are An Enemy
DEF-G10To ensure he knew where Lamine's Achilles heel would be.
Josiah Sutton6It was some photoshoot for a charity calendar set up by Barcelona’s club foundation. Apparently a bunch of pictures with various Barça players hanging out with kids www.nytimes.com/athletic/561...
>messi takes a photo for a charity event at the start of his career nearly 20 years ago with a random baby >baby grows up to be lamine yamal, who is now playing in his first World Cup game >final game will be between Spain and Argentina >messi and yamal will face off
Zi Xu13Will the “son” usurp the “father,” as is his birthright… his destiny??
Kim Sokol (Open for Commissions/Freelance!)8Thank u for the explainer I’m so out of touch I was squinting at it like “…Matt Mercer??”
Orlando B ✍️ COMMS OPEN1Add in the fact that somehow Yamal became the new crown jewel of La Masia, Barcelona's academy, taking over a role that was defined by Messi and it's even wilder
Yeah if this isn't proof of some cabal running the show behind the scenes I don't know what is (just kidding but seriously the whole thing is just so amazingly weird and random)
The iconic photo of Lionel Messi giving Lamine Yamal a bath is a surreal, real-life "passing of the torch" moment. Taken in 2007 for a UNICEF charity calendar, a 20-year-old Messi bathed 5-month-old Yamal after Yamal's family won a local raffle in Mataró. Now both are playing for the World Cup.
MadGreek 🧿24It's a great story. Also: Yamal has since inherited Messi's legacy at the club, even taking over Barcelona's iconic No. 10 shirt ahead of the 2025–26 season.
Mlip2What? This is like Michael Jordan giving LeBron a bath as a baby
Susetoo1This says it all! It doesn’t matter who wins… 🥰
MadGreek 🧿1Yamal's mom had to intervene because a young Messi had no idea yet how to give a bath to a baby... he was a bit hesitant. ❤️
En 2007 Messi participó en una campaña de UNICEF a favor de los niños refugiados. Las fotos las hizo Joan Monfort, de AP y el niño era Lamine Yamal, de una familia del barrio de Rocafonda.
silviallopis.bsky.social4Este es el autor de las fotos, Joan Monfort.
Gabriel Pons-Cortès3Hoy se junta con Javier Negre. Y Ben Gvir tuitea a favor de Argentina.
p r o u2«Sí, es totalmente cierto. Estas imágenes son reales y muestran a un joven Lionel Messi (de unos 20 años) junto a un bebé Lamine Yamal (de unos 5 o 6 meses) y a su madre, Sheila Ebana (en la primera foto)...» 👇
R. Nefando2Eso tiene fuente fiable? Es una serendipia tamaño XXXL.