Dani Alves has no doubts that former teammate Lionel Messi is a better participant than long-time rival Cristiano Ronaldo, describing the Argentine as “in a different world”.
A person of the greatest debates over the past decade or so has been whether or not Messi or Ronaldo is the finest footballer of all time, or ‘The GOAT’.
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This rivalry and discussion was shaped though Messi was at Barcelona and Ronaldo at Real Madrid, all through a time period of time in which these ended up the very best gamers and club teams on the world.
Dani Alves, now taking part in for Mexican facet UNAM Pumas, was a teammate of Messi throughout Barca’s golden age and he has no doubts who the superior participant was.
What did Dani Alves say?
“There came a time because of the rivalry that I would go over to greet him [Ronaldo] and he wouldn’t greet me,” Dani Alves reported on a podcast with Pumas team-mate Efrain Valverde.
“There was a controversy that hardly ever came out, but in the dressing home of the Ballon d’Or ceremony we experienced a fracas, I greeted every person and he did not greet me since of what the Barcelona-Real Madrid rivalry was producing outside the house.
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“He [Messi] was born with the talent to participate in soccer and to be in an additional world that only he can access,” he explained.
Messi and Ronaldo have equally considering that left La Liga. The former is now plying his trade with PSG right after leaving Camp Nou on a free of charge transfer in the summer of 2021.
The Portuguese, meanwhile, moved to Juventus in 2018 right before returning to Man Utd a year ago. The 37-12 months-old issued a transfer request this summertime and could even now leave in January.
Both gamers see their contracts at their existing golf equipment expire at the stop of the season, whilst equally have the alternative to extend for yet another 12 months.
