2026 World Cup: Messi Shares Message to Supporters as Spain Returns Home With $51M Bonus

    The FIFA World Cup now comes with a record payday! Spain took home $51 million in prize money after their victory. FIFA awarded $871 million across all 48 teams in this year’s tournament, making it the richest World Cup ever. Runner-up Argentina took home $34 million of that and their star player, Lionel Messi, took to Instagram to thank supporters. He opened up about what a painful loss it was, but expressed pride in his country reaching back-to-back World Cup finals.

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    1. Messi is the biggest beneficiary of all this; the spanish royal family paid him double what he would have earned if Argentina won, just so he would fumble and make no effort to score, just notice how his performance noticeably dropped during the final match, unlike the previous ones.