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Lionel Messi & Lamine Yamal: The 2007 Bathtub Photo Prophecy

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Jul 25, 202666:33Society & Culture

In 2007, Lionel Messi was photographed bathing baby Lamine Yamal. Nineteen years later, Yamal’s Spain defeated Messi’s Argentina in the 2026 World Cup Final, turning the image into one of soccer’s strangest viral conspir...

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Lionel Messi & Lamine Yamal: The 2007 Bathtub Photo Prophecy is an episode from Theories of the Third Kind by Theories of the Third Kind. In 2007, Lionel Messi was photographed bathing baby Lamine Yamal. Nineteen years later, Yamal’s Spain...

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