🇦🇷 Lionel Messi has become the first player in World Cup history to miss penalties in three different tournaments: against Iceland (2018), Poland (2022), and Austria (2026).

Channel
Football Nation
@football_families
On this record: Topic · Growth · Engagement · What this channel posts · Posts · Citations · Telegram's recommendations · Cite this entry
4,188subscribers
-331 since we began measuring on 19 August 2026
Risers and fallers across the register · movement among entries of 3,162–10,000.
Register entry
| Telegram ID | -1002106035036 |
|---|---|
| Type | Channel |
| Username | @football_families |
| Created | 3 May 2024 — measured — dated from the channel’s first post |
| First recorded | 19 August 2026 |
| Last confirmed live | 25 September 2026 |
| Measurements held | 10 |
| Confirmed unchanged | 1 time, most recently 25 September 2026 |
| On Telegram | t.me/football_families |
Topic
Sports — a classification, not a measurement. An on-box language model (Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-FP8, prompt version 1) read this channel’s own recent posts on 13 September 2026 and assigned it the closest of 31 fixed categories, at 100% confidence. This is a model’s judgement about what the channel is likely to be about, not a fact this register measured the way a subscriber count or a view count is measured — it can be revised on a later pass, and it carries no weight anywhere else on this page. How this classification works, and why it has no browse page of its own yet.
Growth
| Measured (UTC) | Subscribers | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 25 Sept 2026, 08:58 | 4,188 | -63 |
| 15 Sept 2026, 12:38 | 4,251 | -51 |
| 11 Sept 2026, 13:58 | 4,302 | -39 |
| 6 Sept 2026, 13:55 | 4,341 | -49 |
| 1 Sept 2026, 21:13 | 4,390 | -15 |
| 30 Aug 2026, 07:35 | 4,405 | -29 |
| 27 Aug 2026, 01:43 | 4,434 | -35 |
| 24 Aug 2026, 06:47 | 4,469 | -50 |
| 20 Aug 2026, 19:26 | 4,519 | no change |
| 19 Aug 2026, 22:30 | 4,519 | first reading |
Engagement
16 posts held, back to 3 May 2024 — the reader has not yet reached the start of this channel’s public history, so older posts may sit further back, unread. Read across 1 page of Telegram’s post history, 20 posts per page.
Nothing published in the last 30 days. ERR and ER are rolling 30-day measures, so there is nothing to compute — we hold 16 posts for this entry, the most recent from 22 June 2026. An engagement rate over an empty window would be a number about nothing.
What this channel posts
- Video runtime
- 2m 24s
- Average length
- 2m 24s
Measured directly from 1 video with a duration reading, out of the posts we hold for this channel — not this channel’s whole posting history, only the sample this register has actually read. An exact reading to the second, taken from the post itself rather than from Telegram’s own rounded chrome, so it carries no ≈ mark.
Recent posts
JUST IN: Chelsea's star player has been drafted into the World Cup roster at the eleventh hour.
🔥 Kai Havertz is now tied as the leading scorer at the 2026 World Cup. The German forward bagged a brace in Germany’s dominant 7-1 win against Curaçao in their tournament opener. 🇩🇪
The day has arrived ⏳
FIFA officially unveil the new regulations that will apply during the 2026 World Cup.
🚨 BREAKING: Jurrien Timber has been ruled out of the World Cup after failing to recover from a groin injury. 🇳🇱 Lutsharel Geertruida has been called up as his replacement for the Netherlands.
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BREAKING: Starting from the 2026/27 season, Premier League clubs will face stricter punishments for delaying restarts. • Hold up a goal kick for too long? The opposition gets a corner. • Delay a throw-in? Possession switches to the other team. • Substituted players must leave the field within 10 seconds. Failure to do so means their replacement must wait 60 seconds before entering, leaving the team a player short.
🇩🇰Christian Eriksen collapsed during Denmark’s friendly match against Ukraine. According to the Danish national team, Eriksen is in good condition, was able to leave the pitch on his own, and will undergo additional medical evaluations at a hospital. The game was subsequently abandoned.
🇧🇷 A heartbreaking setback for Brazil as Wesley will miss the World Cup after picking up an injury last night. 💔 Carlo Ancelotti has selected Éderson to take his place in the squad. The midfielder, currently with Atalanta BC, is set to join Brazil right away before finalizing his transfer to Manchester United next month.
⚠️ BREAKING: Weather disruptions could affect nearly all 104 matches scheduled for the 2026 FIFA World Cup. • Central host cities like Kansas City, Atlanta, and Dallas face threats from thunderstorms, hail, and potential tornadoes. • Miami and Houston may experience intense heat and humidity, while Monterrey is expected to endure extreme temperatures.
🔥 First snapshot of the Premier League table for the 2026/27 campaign.
Showing the 12 most recent of 16 posts we hold for @football_families. View and reaction counts are the latest single reading for each post, not a live figure, and a recent post is still accumulating both. A view count marked ≈ was rounded by Telegram before we ever saw it — t.me prints views in full below 1,000 and to three significant figures above, so ≈1,200,000 means somewhere between 1,150,000 and 1,249,999. Unmarked counts are exact. Text is reproduced from the public post preview and truncated for length.
Mentions
Names
Channels on the register whose handles appear in this channel's posts.
A mention is a weaker signal than a forward and is counted separately for that reason — naming a channel is not republishing it, and a handle in a post body is easy to place deliberately. The post counts beside each row below are distinct posts in which the handle appeared, from posts we have read on both sides — the “Named by N registered channels” figure above is a different count, of distinct NAMING CHANNELS rather than posts, and is not the sum of the rows under it.
Appears in Telegram’s recommendations for other channels
The reverse of the list above, and a different kind of signal. This does not require this channel to have ever been asked about directly — each row below is a channel we DID ask Telegram about, whose Telegram-generated list happened to include this one. A channel can appear here with an empty list above it, because being named by someone else’s query is independent of having been queried itself.
@ZemenAcademy · 33,656
Telegram ranks this channel #12 of 61 here — alongside 60 others — read 3 September 2026
@BrightAcademy9_12 · 23,143
Telegram ranks this channel #14 of 64 here — alongside 63 others — read 19 September 2026
@Advanced_Freshman · 37,310
Telegram ranks this channel #16 of 65 here — alongside 64 others — read 4 September 2026
@yemsganasehat · 34,480
Telegram ranks this channel #24 of 62 here — alongside 61 others — read 3 September 2026
@ethiomatric · 74,048
Telegram ranks this channel #26 of 77 here — alongside 76 others — read 19 August 2026
@zsecrettrainingcenter · 70,332
Telegram ranks this channel #28 of 74 here — alongside 73 others — read 20 August 2026
@ze_orthodox_tewahdo_1 · 38,646
Telegram ranks this channel #29 of 62 here — alongside 61 others — read 31 August 2026
@orthodoxawi_gtm · 33,273
Telegram ranks this channel #49 of 62 here — alongside 61 others — read 4 September 2026
This channel appears in 8 seed channels' Telegram-generated recommendation lists in total. Each is Telegram’s list for THAT channel, not this one — see how this is measured.
Cite this entry
A live page changes as we take new readings, so a citation should name the measurement it is based on, not just the URL. The line below cites the subscriber count as measured 25 September 2026 — this entry's latest reading, not the date you are reading this.
“Football Nation” (@football_families), 4,188 subscribers as measured 25 September 2026. Telegram Register, tgregister.com/channel/football_families.
Full measurement history, CC BY 4.0. Every reading this register holds for this entry, not just the latest one, as a dated, downloadable record: CSV · JSON. Free to use with attribution to tgregister.com. Each file carries its own generation timestamp, which is the figure to cite for exactly when the data was retrieved.