{"id":151635,"date":"2019-09-12T11:10:03","date_gmt":"2019-09-12T10:10:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=151635"},"modified":"2019-09-12T11:10:25","modified_gmt":"2019-09-12T10:10:25","slug":"what-messi-said-about-accepting-ronaldos-dinner-invitation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=151635","title":{"rendered":"What Messi said about accepting Ronaldo’s dinner invitation"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Barcelona forward, Lionel Messi, has admitted he is not Cristiano Ronaldo\u2019s close friend, but would accept a dinner invitation from the Juventus star.<\/p>\n

Sitting alongside one another on the front row of the recent UEFA Awards, the pair were asked about their relationship.<\/p>\n

Ronaldo, who left Messi behind in La Liga when leaving Real Madrid for Juve in 2018, again aired his admiration and respect for his fellow five-time Ballon d\u2019Or winner.<\/p>\n

The Portuguese also suggested that he and Messi should meet up for lunch at some stage.<\/p>\n

Asked by Sport whether he would accept an invitation were a formal one to be tabled, Messi said: \u201cYes, I don\u2019t have any problem with that.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve always said that I don\u2019t have any issue with him. We might not be friends because we\u2019ve never shared a dressing room together but I always see him at award shows and there\u2019s no problem.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe actually spoke with each other for quite a long time at the most recent show.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t know if there will be a dinner because I don\u2019t know if our paths will cross for obvious reasons, each one of us has our own life and our own commitments. But obviously I would accept the invitation.\u201d<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Barcelona forward, Lionel Messi, has admitted he is not Cristiano Ronaldo\u2019s close friend, but would accept a dinner invitation from the Juventus star. Sitting alongside one another on the front row of the recent UEFA Awards, the pair were asked about their relationship. Ronaldo, who left Messi behind in La Liga when leaving Real Madrid […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":142761,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[4679,10667],"class_list":["post-151635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-christiano-ronaldo","tag-lionel-messi"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=151635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151635\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/142761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=151635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=151635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=151635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}