Lionel Messi said this about Cristiano Ronaldo and his fans couldn't believe it
Lionel Messi talked about his rivalry with Ronaldo.
Lionel Messi won his eighth Ballon d'Or this Monday in Paris and finished burying the debate about who is the best player in the world between him and Cristiano Ronaldo. Although both competed at the same time for many years and at the time the dispute was close, recently the balance tipped in favor of the Rosario not only with the Qatar 2022 World Cup, but also with the number of awards accumulated.
Now, to everyone's surprise, the Portuguese did not take the award to the captain of the Argentine National Team well at all and on Tuesday he liked and commented laughing emojis on a post that claimed that Leo was not worthy of the 2023 Ballon d'Or. nor from two other previous ones. Not satisfied with this, in the Al-Nassr match he ordered the Al-Ettifaq fans to silence, who chanted “Messi, Messi” and pointed at himself making the number one gesture with his index finger.
The Inter Miami footballer, on the other hand, always spoke well of Cristiano and did so again in a chat with the Spanish newspaper Mundo Deportivo after receiving the Ballon d'Or again. In the interview, they asked him about the rivalry they had during so long and the '10' response did not go unnoticed.
What Messi said about Ronaldo
“It was a very nice sporting ‘battle’. We mutually fed off each other, because we are both very competitive. He wanted to win at everything and in everything, and I think it was a very nice time for us and for people who like football in general. What we did for so long has a lot of merit, because it is easy to get there and the difficult thing is to stay, and we stayed at the top for 10 or 15 years. It was very difficult to sustain and spectacular, a nice memory,” said Lionel.
