Wayne Rooney. “Messi is a joke!” : Wayne Rooney’s 14-year-old tweet resurfaces after Argentine icon’s record-breaking World Cup heroics | Football News:
Following Lionel Messi’s historic masterclass against Austria at the 2026 FIFA World Cup, an iconic 14-year-old post England and Manchester United legend Wayne Rooney resurfaced online, sending football fans into an absolute frenzy.The year is 2012. A prime Lionel Messi has just scored an incredible five goals in a UEFA Champions League match for Barcelona against Bayer Leverkusen. Seeing the magic unfold, a stunned Wayne Rooney took to his X (formerly Twitter) account to state the obvious. “Messi is a joke. For me the best ever,” Rooney posted on March 7, 2012. Fast forward 14 years later to Dallas, and those words have aged like the best wine. On Monday night, the 38-year-old Argentine magician once again showed the world why Rooney’s decade-long prediction came true. Messi scored a stunning brace to lead defending champions Argentina to a comfortable 2-0 win over Austria, officially sending his country into the Round of 32.Above all, the twin strikes put Messi at the pinnacle of football history. He achieved an unprecedented 18 World Cup career goals, officially breaking Germany’s Miroslav Klose’s long-standing men’s record of 16 goals to become the all-time top scorer in the tournament’s history.When the final whistle blew in Dallas, fans dug Rooney’s old post out of the archives. The tweet quickly went viral again, garnering millions of new likes, shares, and comments from fans echoing the same sentiment.For more than a decade, Rooney has remained steadfast in his position in the eternal “Greatest of All Time” (GOAT) debate, always placing the Argentine ahead of his former Manchester United teammate Cristiano Ronaldo. With Messi still dominating the biggest stage of all in 2026, football fans are loudly reminding the world that Rooney called it first.
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