FIFA, 'Messi's magic' and Arif Lohar's 'accidental' song: 'Don't worry, Messi is from Lahore'

 

"I think the administrator of FIFA's Instagram page is a Pakistani." "No, no, FIFA's account has been hacked."

On June 24, when a video was shared by FIFA's official Instagram account on the occasion of football player Messi's birthday, there was a frenzy among Pakistanis and this frenzy was not without reason.

Fifa paying tribute to the players is nothing new, but using a Pakistani and especially a Punjabi song for this purpose is nothing less.

The video that FIFA released on Messi's birthday included a song by Pakistani Punjabi folk artist Arif Lohar, a song that has already become very popular.

FIFA chose Arif Lohar's song 'Aataniyun Moj Karavaan' for this video and not only this but the caption of the video was also written in Urdu which was like 'Messi Ka Jadoo'.

After seeing the Pakistani song and the caption in Pakistani language on Messi's video, Pakistani consumers also felt like it was a 'magic'.

As soon as they saw it, Pakistanis started sharing it in large numbers on social media and kept asking in a state of surprise and happiness, 'Jani, what is this video?'

Someone thought that FIFA's Instagram account was being run by a Pakistani, then someone felt that FIFA's account might have been hacked.

On this occasion, many users' sense of humor also woke up. A user named Haider wrote that 'Friends don't worry, Messi is from Lahore.'

Another Pakistani user expressed happiness and wrote that 'Messi is one of us.'

Some suggested that FIFA should play the song during a World Cup match

"Come on three waves

Renowned Punjabi folk singer Arif Lohar has sung many famous songs till date on the tune of Chamte. When Arif Lohar, who brought the culture of Punjab to the fore through his songs, sang 'Aa Trio Moj Karawaan', the song became so popular that whether it was Instagram Reels or Tik Tok videos, this song was heard everywhere.

And now it seems to be getting more popular because of this song on FIFA's Messi video.

After the FIFA video surfaced, a user praised the song and wrote, 'We put Arif Lohar's song on the face of the whole world.'

There were some users who wrote that they didn't like the song but now they like it.

"Arif Lohar has arrived in Argentina," one user wrote humorously.

Narrating the interesting story of this song, Arif Lohar told Nazish Faiz during an interview that 'I was in London one day. My team and I were making songs so I told the kids to go and get chips from the store. When they brought it, I muttered to them, 'Let's play the three chips.'

Arif Lohar said that 'now I did not know that this song will become. Then my team reminded me two years later to do some of that tune you made with the kids.'

Arif Lohar further said that he did not imagine the popularity of this song later.

The highlight of this song is its lyrics and two Punjabi singers. Roach Killa and Deep Jundu are Canadian Punjabi rappers. Roach Kila Sabha was born in Libya to Pakistani parents while Deep Jundu is a Punjabi producer and rapper who also hails from Canada.

Messi 'Greatest Football Player'

By the way, Argentina's Messi is a familiar face to football fans and recently after his team won the Football World Cup, his name started to be mentioned in the discussion of great football players along with Maradona and Pele. is

The Football World Cup in Qatar was a tournament with which Messi's name is forever associated.

It should be noted that it was the dream of lifting the World Cup trophy that brought Messi to this point, but this path was not easy.

The journey that started in 2006 saw Messi face several disappointments, including losing the World Cup final to Germany in 2014, but Messi should have known that this honor would come so easily. No.

But then in 2022, Messi lifted the World Cup trophy into the air in an explosive storm of electric lights.

This is the one trophy that his millions of fans will now present as testimony that he is the greatest player in the game.

Messi also received the Golden Ball award at the tournament and is the first player to win it twice since the award was introduced in 1982. He won this award for the first time in 2014.

Messi played a role in 21 goals for his team at the World Cup, 13 of which were his own. After this World Cup, his total number of goals has reached 793.