The photo of Lionel Messi and Marcelo Gallardo broke the like record on social media

In the early hours of Friday, when the Monumental had already witnessed an exciting and historic night with the celebration of the national team for obtaining the third world cup, the official reports of the River published a photo that would have exploded the matrix.

Earlier, two powers had met in the local locker room. Lionel Messi and Marcelo Gallardo met again, greeted each other, embraced and took a photo of each other smiling, wearing a River shirt, on the back of which was the surname of the best player in the world and the number 10.

“The perfect photo exists”, wrote the club on its networks. Messi, Gallardo and the red armband. And it was like this: as if it were an image generated by artificial intelligence thinking about what River fans might like most, the smiles of the Doll and of Leo With the jacket that the managers had just given them, they literally formed the perfect photo. And this, of course, translated into performance results that exploded the club’s social networks, leaving historical records.

River’s post with the Doll AND Leo broke all records of likes on Instagram for the club’s history and also for that of all Argentine football clubs: less than 24 hours after its publication, the photo has already surpassed the previous photo with the most likes on the official account of the ‘institute de Núñez on Instagram, which was that of all the former Rivers who lift the World Cup with the Lusail stadium in Qatar in the background: that garnered 1,076,000 likes. That of Gallardo and Messi has already exceeded 1.6 million and counts …

For River this is an internal record but it is also an external one. For example, the post by Leo and the Doll It also surpassed the more than 900,000 likes that the Boca account had with the photo of Messi himself playing Topo Gigio in the match against the Netherlands.

Of course, Boca also has its own “perfect picture” on Instagram: it is that of Messi and Riquelme in the Bombonera locker room with the Boca shirt and the 10 on the back, similar to that of the River, even if 775,000 users put their hearts into it.

Of course, it was the dream photo of all the fans, who first saw the postcard of Messi with President Jorge Brito on the Twitter account of the bookmaker sponsoring the millionaire and announced: “Codere, River’s official sponsor, couldn’t help but hang out with the best in the world.” Gallardo would also arrive shortly after, also photographed with Scaloni, with the club president and secretary Stefano Di Carlo.

The shirt was a gift the club gave to Messi. And to other Argentinian players. To Franco Armani, goalkeeper of Martín Demichelis’ team, to former River Gonzalo Montiel (he made a grand gesture when he bought tickets for the 60 boys of the River pension to see the national team’s friendly with Panama and attend the celebrations) , Enzo Fernández, Julián Álvarez, Exequiel Palacios, Guido Rodríguez and Germán Pezzella and Nicolás Otamendi, a fan of River, who also winked to convince him to play for the club from mid-year. He also received his Scaloni jacket, with the number 18 on the back.