Messi is much better than Ronaldo footballing wise, but Ronaldo has much more aura than Messi.
Chelsea fan here who watched prem in the mid-late 2000s, tho Ronaldo was Chelsea’s rival, he was one of my fav player growing up. Every kid wanted to be like Ronaldo. His hair, his long sleeve, his wrist band. Kids used to imitate the way he took freekicks. You know… taking 5 step back and then opening your leg wide. The way he ran with the ball. He was also a good dribbler who uses flashy skills. His long range goals and very powerful shooting. And post 2010’s his celebration was another iconic thing.
Messi on the other hand was just an insane baller, imo the best ever. But that was about it. When you’re young, we get excited over people doing skills to dribble than just raw dribbling. Messi simply has no aura about his game. His not savage(like Ronaldo/Zlatan), he’s very humble. Keeps to himself.
I thought I was going to be a footballer. I learnt how to run and shoot like Ronaldo. Because of him, I learnt how to do step overs. I remember watching tons of videos of Ronaldo doing football freestyle in training and just being obsessed with it. He inspired me to be a better footballer tho I didn’t make it.
lol he’s the best RB in the world and most complete as well.
This’s a player that’s barely 100% fit due to him getting injured after every 5 games. Yet he comes back rusty and put in a performance that’s better than 98% of RB.
He had a poor game today and all of a sudden, you all come out of your shell and say he’s overrated. Why did you have to post this now? Why didn’t you make this post after the City game???
That’s the problem I have with you lot on social media. When you player is on form, it would all be cricket… but as soon as the player has a poor game, tweets and post will be about how that player is overrated.
This’s what VVD suffers from. Dude would be flawless in 95% of LFC games, but has one stinker and people begin to talk about how overrated he is.