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Lionel Messi's Argentina world champions post has become the most liked picture in the history of Instagram - overtaking an image of an egg.

That post got 56.1million likes but Messi's image of him lifting aloft the World Cup after Argentina beat France in Sunday's World Cup final has now raced past it.

In the aftermath of Argentina's thrilling penalty shootout win over France, the PSG star took to Instagram to post 10 pictures of the celebrations in Qatar.

In the time since he uploaded it, Messi's post has racked up a staggering 56 million likes, with the forward also surpassing 402million followers on the social media platform.

Messi accompanied the post with a caption that read: 'WORLD CHAMPIONS!!!!!!! I dreamed it so many times, I wanted it so much that I still haven't fallen, I can't believe it......

'Thank you very much to my family, to all who support me and also to all who believed in us. We demonstrate once again that Argentines when we fight together and united we are capable of achieving what we set out to do.

'The merit belongs to this group, which is above individualities, it is the strength of all fighting for the same dream'.