The official FIFA.com Twitter account congratulated Steven Davis on Thursday, while Rangers and Northern Ireland fans heaped praise on the record-breaker.
In captaining NI during their dramatic Euro 2020 playoff semi-final win over Bosnia and Herzegovina, Davis became his country’s most-capped player of all time.
With 120, he has also now also joined Wayne Rooney as the most-capped outfield player in home nations history.
The 35-year-old made his international debut in 2005 and has experienced many highs and lows across his 15 years in the shirt.
He’s always made himself available, though, and has always led by example on the pitch.
As the record beckoned, Northern Ireland released a video in which former managers and teammates paid tribute to Davis’ achievement over clips of him in action.
The video was shared by the official FIFA.com account to its 13.6m followers after they added ‘Congratulations to the record-breaking Steven Davis’.
Praise also flooded in for the midfield maestro beneath the initial video, with both Rangers and Northern Ireland fans lauding him.
Here’s a selection of reactions from Twitter:
What a man, What a player, What career, Captain fantastic that is @StevenDavis8 — #Legend 🇬🇧
💚⚽️💚👏🏻 pic.twitter.com/XKJLFesY9p— |■|TOMMY|■| (@Tommy3blues86) October 8, 2020
Don’t normally tweet about players but have to say an absolute gem of a player and seems to be a really good guy also. Never any fuss around him and seems to get the respect of all teammates and opponents on the pitch which is not easy and certainly not in Glasgow. 👏👏👏
— Roddy Wylie (@RodW78) October 8, 2020
Rolls Royce of a player 💙
— 𝐓𝐑𝐖 (@s26mcm) October 8, 2020
Complete Legend
— The Donfather (@DonfatherThe) October 8, 2020
Well done Davo! Absolute credit to club and country. 🇬🇧
— William graham (@wassel1) October 8, 2020
The consummate professional. Congratulations,Steven 👏🏼💪🏽👏🏼
— HazelMary (@bluehabibti) October 8, 2020
Great tribute to a great player. Fantastic achievement Steven.
— SDVOL (@VOLRoomPandemic) October 8, 2020
What a player and what a man.
— Michael Anderson (@Mikey_Ando88) October 8, 2020
Fittingly, Davis went on to play a full 120 minutes on his 120th appearance, as Northern Ireland went toe-to-toe with a strong Bosnia and Herzegovina side in Sarajevo.
With the scores still locked at 1-1 after extra time, NI went on to triumph on penalties, ensuring that the Rangers star still has a chance of leading his country to another major tournament.
The playoff final against Slovakia awaits in November, but first, Davis and co. have Nations League assignments against Austria and Norway.