{"id":12165,"date":"2022-11-18T13:03:09","date_gmt":"2022-11-18T13:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=12165"},"modified":"2022-11-18T13:03:09","modified_gmt":"2022-11-18T13:03:09","slug":"ronaldo-reveals-special-relationship-with-messi-ahead-of-fifa-wc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/sports\/ronaldo-reveals-special-relationship-with-messi-ahead-of-fifa-wc\/","title":{"rendered":"Ronaldo reveals special relationship with Messi ahead of FIFA WC"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ronaldo reveals special relationship with Messi ahead of FIFA WC. Legendary footballer Cristiano Ronaldo<\/a> has paid tribute to his long-time rival, Lionel Messi, ahead of the FIFA World Cup 2022 in Qatar.<\/p>\n

While speaking in an interview with Piers Morgan on TalkTV, Ronaldo revealed that he has a special relationship with the Argentine star.<\/p>\n

“He is an amazing player. Magic. Top. As a person, we share the stage 16 years. Imagine 16 years. So, I have great relationship with him. I’m not a friend of him, in terms of what I mean as a friend who was with you in your house or speaking on the phone,” said Ronaldo.<\/p>\n

“No, but it’s like a teammate. He’s a guy that I really respect the way he always speaks about me. Even his wife or my wife, my girlfriend, they always have respect and they’re from Argentina.<\/p>\n

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“My girlfriend is from Argentina. So good. What I am going to say about Messi? A great guy who does great things for football.”<\/p>\n

\u201cProbably the best player I’ve ever seen [excluding myself]. Maybe Zidane. That I play and fight with, yes.\u201d<\/p>\n

‘Provoked’<\/strong><\/p>\n

In the same interview, Ronaldo also claimed he was “provoked” by a lack of respect from Manchester United manager Erik ten Hag when refusing to come on as a substitute against Tottenham last month.<\/p>\n

Ronaldo has been a peripheral figure on the field during Ten Hag’s first season in charge.<\/p>\n

The striker responded to criticism after he refused to come on and left Old Trafford early during United’s 2-0 win on October 19.<\/p>\n

“I think he did it on purpose,” said Ronaldo. “I felt provoked. I don’t have respect for him because he doesn’t show respect for me.”<\/p>\n

The club responded by suspending the five-time Ballon d’Or winner for the Red Devils’ next match against Chelsea.<\/p>\n

“I think it was a strategy from the club for me to react that way,” he added. “I was very, very, very, very disappointed with the communication of Manchester United.<\/p>\n

“To be honest, I never had a problem with any club, with any coach and they suspend me three days, which I felt was a lot.”<\/p>\n

https:\/\/twitter.com\/Cristiano\/status\/1588267732298043392?s=20&t=wwH9Ho3jqArEx9ZOolLLTQ<\/p>\n

In a statement on Monday, United said they will consider the club’s response to the interview once the full facts are established.<\/p>\n

The 37-year-old was reportedly keen to leave the club even before the campaign began after United failed to qualify for the Champions League.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ronaldo reveals special relationship with Messi ahead of FIFA WC. Legendary footballer Cristiano Ronaldo has paid tribute to his long-time rival, Lionel Messi, ahead of the FIFA World Cup 2022 in Qatar. While speaking in an interview with Piers Morgan on TalkTV, Ronaldo revealed that he has a special relationship with the Argentine star. “He […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":12167,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[980,7119,1963,6154,97],"class_list":["post-12165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-cristiano-ronaldo","tag-fifa-world-cup-2022","tag-manchester-united","tag-old-trafford","tag-qatar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12165\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}