A yellow, a red and a referee's souvenirs for Messi's 'last game for Argentina'

The beIN SPORTS Australia Short is a joke that half its viewers needed a second look to get, and it arrived on the day the channel passed 250,000 subscribers.

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Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 341,538 views a day, 1366 times a normal first day on this channel (250).

Messi gets a yellow and red card in his last game for Argentina!

"Messi gets a yellow and red card in his last game for Argentina!" reads like a bitter ending to one of football's great international careers. That is the joke. The Short comes from beIN SPORTS Australia, and its description says the referee simply would not let Lionel Messi leave without all the souvenirs. The tags point to a friendly against Benin.

The comment section shows how well the title does its job. Several viewers admit it took them a while to work out what they were watching. One says they had read about the cards elsewhere and assumed Messi had really been booked, before seeing it was a gesture. Others joke about how much those two cards became worth in a few seconds, or suggest the referee just wanted a part in the documentary. A few leave goodbyes with the date written underneath.

There is a neat echo in it, too. Messi's senior debut for Argentina, against Hungary in 2005, ended with a red card within minutes of his coming on as a substitute. Between that card and these two came two Copa América titles and the 2022 World Cup.

For this channel, a Short usually counts its first-day views in the hundreds. This one passed 340,000. It sat beside a run of Shanghai Masters tennis highlights, each still in the low hundreds, and on the same day beIN SPORTS Australia crossed 250,000 subscribers.

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The numbers

A Short on this channel normally has a quiet first day, which makes this one look very different from everything around it.

the video's first day

usual first day here

250

this video

341,538

subscribers

250,000

▲ 3,000 in the last 7 days

total views

177,102,120

views per day

320,177

typical day: 784,185

the video

views

360,070

likes

3,024

comments

42

days online

1

compared with similar channels (subscribers)

AFC Bournemouth

269,000

The Club

262,000

beIN SPORTS Australia

250,000

Daily Mail Football

227,000

FILTHYFELLAS

219,000

Conner Cole

215,000

As of October 8, 2026 · Data source: Trari Social News, Trari Traffic Trends and Ranking Platform, Google YouTube

Subscriber, view, like and comment counts are YouTube's. Rates, usual days, rankings, comparisons and categories are Trari's own calculations.

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