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@rmadashing Winner- Argentina Runner up - Spain 3rd Place - France

@thatsam009_ 😂😂

Piers Morgan and Cristiano Ronaldo interview in 2020 🗣️Piers Morgan: “What aboout this idea, you get to the final: Portugal vs Argentina, you score 2, Messi score 2 and 94th minute you score a third for a hat trick and you win the World Cup. 🗣️Ronaldo: “I will say I would finish football at this point and I will retire if I win the World Cup” Without World Cup no one rates him

@MLlord2n1 @FullCipher You lack sense.

@Heights00 @FullCipher No, we’re not in trouble… it means your brains are disabled

You can die in a battle, but that doesn’t mean you are not the greatest. He never favoured, He never cheated He has done all with courage.

@boy_dosty Bruv, you don’t know what you’re talking about. This is what you guys always try to do. Imagine saying Ronaldo turned Madrid into UCL kings. It’s always exaggerating with you guys. You mean the Real Madrid we all know??? Just to make your goat seem special???

@Heights00 Madrid was getting knocked out in the Round of 16 before he arrived, and Barca was dominating Spain. He literally turned Madrid into UCL kings. Go check the history book bro 🤷🏽‍♂️

To those ranting that Ronaldo isn’t the GOAT, listen to this carefully: We’ll never know.

@GroveRKifasi Yeah soon as I saw “greater talent”, I skipped the rest. I always say the only way to keep this force debate going is to downplay or normalize the extraordinary parts of Messi’s game and hype up the other guy’s goals. There’s no other way around this.

Probably my last take on this Cristiano Ronaldo and Messi debate on this space, but there’s nothing that irritates me more than the rhetoric of, “Oh, Lionel Messi is so gifted, while Cristiano Ronaldo is just hard work.” That is an incredibly simplistic way to look at both players. Lionel Messi is 39 years old and is still performing at the World Cup at the highest level, being one of the best players, if not the best player, at the entire World Cup. That is not the product of somebody who is simply naturally gifted. Yes, Messi is naturally gifted. But I would even argue that there are players we’ve seen in football who also possessed similar, if not greater, natural talent. Ronaldo Nazario, Johan Cruyff, Maradona, Pelé, and especially Ronaldinho come to mind. Messi is incredibly talented, probably the most talented player we’ve ever seen, but he’s also incredibly hardworking. The amount of tackles he has had to crunch throughout his career, his strength on the ball, his resistance, his body balance, all of that is the product of somebody who works hard and is determined like a monster. Also, the talk that Messi doesn’t have a strong mentality is just crap. We’ve seen what Messi has endured. He has endured some of the most embarrassing losses at the highest stage, yet time and time again, he comes back again and again and again. He’s already won one World Cup. Most people thought he wouldn’t even be at this World Cup three years ago, but here he is yet again, still at the top, leading his team. So yes, he’s a mentality monster. And the same applies to Cristiano Ronaldo. People who reduce Cristiano Ronaldo to simply hard work and determination, okay, you go and be hardworking and see if you’ll become Cristiano Ronaldo. You can work ten times as hard as Ronaldo and never achieve what he has achieved because he’s simply just that gifted. The pace, the ability to move the ball, the instincts on the ball. Those of you who watched Cristiano Ronaldo in his early days, did you people see what he was doing? He could dribble like a knife cutting through hot butter. He was unstoppable. You could not stop him. Those are not things you learn by running on a treadmill. Those are things that are natural to you. If you don’t have it, you don’t have it. And I promise you, no matter how hard you work, if you’re not born with that level of natural gift, you will never have it. Now, to end this, my point on who is the greatest of all time. Messi and Ronaldo, when we talk about who is the better player, that is a very, very subjective thing that we can debate. I hear people who tell me that Messi is better. I personally still believe that Cristiano Ronaldo is a finer player in terms of his overall ability because he can do more. He’s faster, he’s better aerially, he can score from further distance. I just feel he’s a more refined footballer overall. But I hear people who think Messi is better and might prefer his playing style. That I hear. But when we talk about greatness, we are talking about not just what the person has accomplished, but how the person has accomplished it. Cristiano Ronaldo’s story, how he moved from Madeira to Lisbon, to Manchester, to Real Madrid, to Juventus, that story is the story of greatness. The moments he has created in football. The longevity. The consistency. The ability to reinvent himself. The level at which he has performed across different teams, different leagues, different generations. That is greatness. Recency bias will not change my opinion on this matter. I don’t think that there’s any footballer that is as great as Cristiano Ronaldo. I feel like Cristiano Ronaldo is significantly the greatest football player that we have ever seen. He’s about to hit 1,000 goals, and just like the recency bias is swinging in Messi’s favour, I’m sure that Cristiano Ronaldo, knowing who he is, still has enough in him to swing something back his way. He is not just my ‘goat’ but THE GREATEST.

@BolajiOyebode They were kind enough to give Messi at least one goal.

19th of July, Messi will be there. But guess who won’t? 😂😂

@Joshua__Ubeku All their arguments will crumble one after another. He’s being exposed for the fraud he is.

You just called Ronaldo a system player.

@kofoworola__a That was a given before a ball was kicked.

I didn’t even ask Messi to enter finals. Just wanted him to have a better campaign that Ronaldo

@YKoluwaseun9 😂😂😂😂

You fit dey go through one or two, make you just remember when Ronaldo say ‘I’m back!’ You go first burst laugh 😂😂

@MichaelAsiedu_ Just throw in well reasoned arguments and Ronaldo fans run or shift goalposts.

By this logic, Messi has done more for Inter Miami than Ronaldo did for Real Madrid. The logic collapses the moment you apply it consistently. “He inherited a stronger country” is one of the weakest arguments in football. It treats history as if it plays matches. Argentina didn’t win the 1978 or 1986 World Cups because Messi existed. Portugal didn’t fail to win before Ronaldo because he didn’t exist. Every generation starts with a new squad, a new manager, new opponents, and new circumstances. If we’re going to credit players for everything their country achieved before they were born, then we also have to blame them for everything their country failed to achieve before they were born. That’s obviously absurd. By that logic, Messi has done more for Inter Miami than Ronaldo did for Real Madrid, because Inter Miami had virtually no history before he arrived, while Madrid already had a museum full of European Cups. No serious football fan evaluates club careers that way. We judge what the player actually contributed during his time there not what happened decades before he was born. The same standard should apply to international football.

@juanif17 Never! Messi is not normal.

Lo de Messi es estadisticamente imposible Nunca se vio cosa igual

@EmeritusTolu Aswear. They had to exaggerate his goal scoring to make him look like a great player.

Ronaldo fans are killing me mahnnn😂😂😂 Rebut post, nah. Just whining in my comments. Your man wasn't just as good as he was made to be... Anyone wey e sure come meet for space, I'll delete my account and not come back to X ever if I lose that argument 🤣🤣🤣

@laserr77 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

"Younger generation" U old pass Wenger wey call Messi the goat?

@BxrcaHncho @socraticjuan Exactly!! That’s why I won’t entertain any “Ronaldo was better from this year to this year” BS. He scored more at some point but was NEVER A BETTER PLAYER!!!

@socraticjuan The award used to go to the player with the best individual performance. Messi won 4 in a row with this criteria. They didn’t like that so they turned it into the UCL / WC player of the tournament award. Now that Leo has exploited that new criteria, they now want to go back 😂

Let’s keep it real. If the award were TRULY given to the best player in the world every year, then it would have gone to Messi AT LEAST 15x, if not more. You can do all the mental gymnastics you want and talk about goals or titles, but no INDIVIDUAL was actually better than him.

@uuMaSiya 😂😂5 years??? Ronaldo better than Messi? Which planet have you lived on all these years???????

No,Ronaldo was better than him in 2008, and from 2013 until 2018

@TJ_Huss32 🤦‍♂️

Stupid. Messi, like most players do, dropped deeper as he aged because his BODY couldn't hack the high intensity sprints of playing up front. Ronaldo still plays up front.

@Josepensees Exactly the point I made earlier today. If you look back nobody has played better than him since 09. Ronaldo scored more than him in a few seasons and that’s it. Football wise? Nobody came close!

Recordemos que el criterio por el Balón de Oro (Ballon D'or) se cambió en varias ocasiones solo para crearle competencia a MESSI, de lo contrario, el argentino debió haber ganado uno por año. Antes de Leo, se valoraba el impacto en sus equipos, el juego, la creación de juego, los goles, asistencias y fútbol en general. Para crearle competencia, se empezó a valorar solo LO ÚNICO que hacía el del Madrid, es decir, goles. Pero si el criterio del pasado se mantenía, Messi habría ganado 15 balones de oro, MÍNIMO.

@socraticjuan That’s why at some point it became based on goals because nobody played better since 09.

@maxstephhh espn.com/soccer/story/_…

@maxstephhh ESPN put up a nice piece on their site. It explains Messi’s greatness along the lines you just put here. You should read it. It’s very good!

If you have to bring -Pele to argue against Messi's Word Cup career. -Ronaldo to argue against Messi's goal record -KDB to argue against Messi's assists -Dani Alves to argue against Messi's career trophies -Neymar/Maradona to argue against Messi's dribbling -Iniesta and Zidane to argue against Messi's playmaking -Xavi to argue against Messi's passing The debate was over before it even began.

@dizzy10_ 😂😂😂😂

One day dinosaur go comot one of ein videos😂

@coolest_evans 😂😂😂he should naturalize. He’s getting married to an Argentine.

The only reason he doesn’t have a WC trophy is because the national team he finds himself in. Ronaldo would have won the WC if he had those Argentine players around him. Fact