The Portuguese skipper has voiced his opinion regarding the sense of enmity among players, adding how the media presents and exaggerates it.
Real Madrid’s http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Barcelona-c38604 starlet, Lionel Messi, suggesting that he does not consider another footballer to be a rival. He claimed that the word ‘rivalry’ is associated with football clubs and not footballers.
The former Manchester United player went on to state that athletes try their best to perform for their teams and for any great player, individual motive is rarely involved. Furthermore, he suggested that hype regarding his enmity with Messi is actually a
reflection of the traditional animosity between Madrid and Barca.
According to Ronaldo, the two top players in the world of football are merely doing their own part for their own respective clubs. He even went on to claim that he considers every other footballer as a colleague.
However, while maintaining that his opposition is not with the Barca number 10, the former Red Devil did express that he treats everything as a challenge. At the same time, the forward also insisted that his competition or challenge is not with a single
player.
http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Leo-c22011 and Cristiano are currently two of the best footballers on the planet. The two men have managed to become household names all over the world and still continue to perform at the very top of the beautiful game.
Even though the athletes themselves have denied any sort of antagonism, the Spanish media has the constant tendency to draw comparisons between them and portray them as adversaries.
While talking to reporters, the 27-year-old was quoted as saying:
"I don't regard other footballers as rivals, rather as colleagues. He does his job for Barcelona and I do mine for Madrid, just as I also did at Manchester United. I'm a person who likes a challenge and I always will be, but not a challenge with one single
player. I do my http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Job-c18684 wherever I play and I try to do it to the best of my ability."
http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Lionel-Messi-c22296 are likely to be in contention for this year’s FIFA Ballon d’Or award. It will be interesting to see which player takes the coveted prize home.
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