{"id":163813,"date":"2019-10-29T07:42:06","date_gmt":"2019-10-29T06:42:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=163813"},"modified":"2019-10-29T07:44:13","modified_gmt":"2019-10-29T06:44:13","slug":"ronaldo-reveals-what-messi-did-to-him-in-laliga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=163813","title":{"rendered":"Ronaldo reveals what Messi did to him in LaLiga"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Juventus forward, Cristiano Ronaldo, has said his \u201chealthy rivalry\u201d with Barcelona captain, Lionel Messi, during his time in LaLiga made him a better player.<\/p>\n

Both men have won the coveted Ballon d\u2019Or five times and are considered to be two of the greatest players of all time.<\/p>\n

Ronaldo spent nine years with Real Madrid, before joining Juventus in 2018 and Messi recently acknowledged the pair spurred each other on in their quest for individual honours.<\/p>\n

The Portuguese superstar has now echoed those views, telling France Football: \u201cA lot of people said that we fed each other, that being together in Spain made us better.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s certainly true. I felt his presence more in Madrid than in Manchester. It was a healthy rivalry. We were the symbols of our clubs.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s always nice to be spoken of in a flattering way. It\u2019s nice if they say I\u2019ve been the best, a fantastic player.<\/p>\n

\u201cToday, I hear everything they say about me, but when it\u2019s all over, at the end of my career, I won\u2019t mind because I\u2019ll disconnect from everything.\u201d<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Juventus forward, Cristiano Ronaldo, has said his \u201chealthy rivalry\u201d with Barcelona captain, Lionel Messi, during his time in LaLiga made him a better player. Both men have won the coveted Ballon d\u2019Or five times and are considered to be two of the greatest players of all time. Ronaldo spent nine years with Real Madrid, before […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":163814,"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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[4679,2398,4665],"class_list":["post-163813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-christiano-ronaldo","tag-messi","tag-ronaldo"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163813","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=163813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163813\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/163814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=163813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=163813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=163813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}