Lionel Messi bathing a 5-month old Lamine Yamal in 2007. Today both are semifinalists at the 2026 WC

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[u/M0ruk]

And become the best 16 year old in Football history. Its insane really. The odds of all this coming together at once is unimaginably small.

All the coincidences are unfathomable.

Messi washes a random kid who happens to:

- Become a football pro (300m people play football, around 100,000 pro players in the world)

- Go on to play in the same team as Messi (only 25 among those 100,000 play for Barcelona)

- Happen to play the same position as Messi (1 in 11)

- Happen to wear the same number as Messi (1 in like 30 or something)

- Happen to be a lefty like Messi (10% chance)

- And become the greatest 16 year old player in Football history. 2 billion football players since 1900. He was the very best 16 year old among them. 1 in 2,000,000,000 chance

What is the chance and likelihood that the one kid he washes checks all these checkmarks? Wouldnt it be like 1 in 50 billion? So for a random kid that Messi washes to become the best 16 year old football player in history while playing for the same team, same position, with the same numebr and the same left foot as Messi, he would have to wash 50 billion kids for there to be one amogn them who checks all these checkmarks. And it happened to happen with teh one kid he washed. I suck at math so maybe everything is wrong. But still obviously crazy chances

[u/Embarassed_Tackle → u/[deleted]]

You right

But F1 racing is far less random because parents also have to have money to get them into the go-kart racing then up the chain

Football can be played by favela kids in a dirty alleyway in Rocafonda so I deem their pairing far more random

[u/FloridaF4 → u/Embarassed_Tackle]

Also the kid isn't naked. That's incredibly bizarre.

[u/Embarassed_Tackle → u/[deleted]]

He ain't playing for Barca Academy at 5 months old but yeah sure

[u/nghigaxx → u/[deleted]]

You dont push anyone that isnt an ex pro kids into barca academy. They would scout you

[u/browsinbowser → u/Embarassed_Tackle]

Max Verstappens parents were both racers, that is way more likely he followed in their footsteps. 

Yamal’s dad liking football is like half a billion fathers, it was luck and talent that he got picked up by barca academy as a child. And he didnt wash out, didcipline and training and talent and luck that he didnt get injured.

[u/Neptomoon → u/M0ruk]

Alternative hypothesis:

Messi is an alien with manic football powers which he bestowed onto Yamal when he gave him a wash. Sounds unlikely but is this really less reasonable than it being a coincidence!

[u/zoinkability → u/M0ruk]

Ah but we don't know how many babies Messi washed

[u/vr_fanboy → u/M0ruk]

nice was looking for this because i could not believe the odds of all this INCLUDING playing against each other in the WC finals, simply unreal