- Coverage
- 44 outlets in 32 countries, across 5 regions. The article links are no longer held: they lasted a week past the story’s last article; the outlet list is permanent. Of the 44 outlets, 4 state-owned, 4 public-service, 36 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
- Countries by region
- Africa 5: Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, Republic of the Congo, Senegal. Americas 9: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Guatemala, Mexico, Peru. Asia-Pacific 7: Australia, Bangladesh, India, Japan, Pakistan, Singapore, South Korea. Europe 6: Germany, Greece, Lithuania, Portugal, Spain, United Kingdom. Middle East 5: Iraq, Qatar, Syria, Turkey, United Arab Emirates. The region a country’s press publishes from, as the feed list files it; the outlets that publish from no single country count as one country under International.
- Languages
- Arabic, German, Greek, English, Spanish, French, Lithuanian, Portuguese.
- Timeline
- Earliest article La Nación (AR), 15 Sept 2026, 20:14 UTC. First seen 15 Sept 2026, 20:20 UTC. Last seen 19 Sept 2026, 18:38 UTC. The earliest article is the earliest claimed publication time among the outlets Loudest reads, a claim rather than an observation and not a record of who broke the story (the data files call it the lead article); first seen is when Loudest first fetched an article of it, from which the running time counts.
- Classification
- Region Americas, Argentina. Topic Sport. Hard news Not judged. This story predates the hard-news rule (methodology 3.0). Whether the story is hard news under the rule in the methodology, judged from its headlines by a model; a story judged outside the rule is left off the map and kept here. The region and country are where the story is about, not where it was covered.
- Score
- 29.79, at the end of the last day measured. One vote per general-press country and a smaller term for outlets, each counted from the moment it joined the story and fading on its own clock, so a late article does not renew the rest. A day in the archive keeps the score it was ranked by that day.
- Chain
- Continued by Lionel Messi reveals special jersey for Argentina farewell match; Messi farewell match for Argentina national team. A story continues another when it resembled it as it began, past that story’s own 48-hour box.
- Day by day
Outlets and countries are the story’s whole life as of that midnight; the 24-hour columns are that day’s own coverage; the last column is the methodology version the day was measured under, and a day that spans a change of version shows the first and last, linked to the changelog that lists every version between. A day marked partial is one Loudest read only in part: fewer than 130 of its 144 ten-minute runs, or more than 30 minutes missed at its start or end.