KinzyeWriter: Having World Class stars like Dybala, Higuain, Pastore, Icardi, Di Maria, Aguero, Marcos Rojo, Otamendi, Lavezzi, Perroti, Correa in your National team, who all plays for Europe top clubs is said to be one man team led by Messi.
But Players like Patricio (30) Bruno Alves (36), Quaresma(34) Nani (31) Joao Moutinho(31) and Pepe (35) are carrying Cristiano Ronaldo and Portugal �� according to some Certain fanbase and Media.
This is how unfair the football world has been to Cristiano Ronaldo, But Still the Mentality he transmits into this portuguese team is unbelievable, He knows that they don't have world class stars in their team like Germany, Spain, Brazil or Argentina, But you won't see him bothered about Future Criticism he might get in the world cup.
He will always and always face it like a Man. And Then there is team leader like Messi who is already hinting about Retirement if they fail to win the World Cup even with those World Class stars. This Man always want everything on his silver plate.
Dude National team is no Barcelona!! He may be a talented footballer but as as a leader, He doesn't even belong in that category!
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One is supposed to ignore such posts filled with lies and half truths but that would amount to closing one's eyes to falsehood.
Cristiano Ronaldo isn't Jesus Christ. He is neither Pele nor Maradona. He is neither Messi nor Zidane.
So there is no damn footballing reason for the football world to be unfair to him. All the sticks he gets stem from non-footballing reasons.
Who is Correa? Who is Perotti?
Icardi, Rojo world class? Rubbish! Argentina have got at least 6 world class attackers with only 3 entitled to be in a starting line up at a time. Crap midfield. Crap defence.
And talking about your misleading and deceitful comment on ages:
At the 2010 world cup. Pepe-27 Nani-23 Moutinho-23 Bruno Alvez-28 Quaresma-26 Contreao-24 And what was the outcome? A first round exit!
At the 2014 world cup Pepe-31 Nani-27 Moutinho-27 Bruno Alvez-32 Quaresma-30 Contreao-28
And what was the outcome again? A first round crash!
What is your excuse for your Ronaldo?
Portugal remains one of the top footballing nations in europe, even before Cristiano Ronaldo was born.
Besides the european power houses of Spain,Germany, Italy and France. Portugal comes into reckoning as a top 7 european power. And there are over 60 european teams which take part in qualifiers. That's at worst 7th out of 60!!!!
And you want us to believe that portugal are over achieving because of ronaldo? Utter rubbish!
Portugal wìnning euro 2016 was like leichester city winning the epl. By a stroke of luck qualifying as best losers and managing to avoid Germany, Italy, Spain and England all through.
He is the top european scorer but never scored against Spain, Germany, Italy, England, France.
Only Andorra, Latvia, Linchistein, Malta, Moldova etc etc. What da fucck is that?
And what's the summary.
-Argentina blessed with superstar attackers who become bums in national team colours. -Crap midfield. -Average defence.
-Portugal, a top 7 european footballing nation and a top 10 world footballing nation, with or without cristiano ronaldo, before and during cristiano ronaldo. -Cristiano Ronaldo has done nothing for them besides score against crap teams like andorra and latvia and san marino.
senorova: I just read that Messi has talent, but not as ambitious as Oponunaldo
You see, there are two people in this life. People that strive for greatness, and people that are comfortable in their comfort zone. In terms of modern football, Oponunaldo and Messi clearly fall into the first category.
I can list 50 players who are as talented as they can be but did not amount to much. To mention a few, Angel Dimaria, Ricardo Quaresma, Bojan Krkic, Giovanni Dos Santos, Hartem Ben Arfa, Celestine Babayaro, even our very own jay jay Okocha. These players by their own standards had the very potential to be a GOAT. It is either they toiled with mediocrity in their prime years, unlucky with injuries, or they lived flamboyant lifestyles at the expense of a prolific career.
To say Messi is not ambitious? It is either you people do not understand that talent alone DID NOT make Messi the player he is today. If anything, he had more obstacles to his illustrious career while growing up than most players who are equally talented. For crying out loud, Messi is the man that Barcelona breathes...you think it is just talent? How many talented players have played for barca and were disgraced out of the club? You see a player who never dives to the ground even when been hacked down, but instead fights to get the ball moving and you say he doesn't have ambition? You see a player who wants to win everything every season by scoring goals, assisting team mates, splitting up opposition defenses and you say he doesn't have ambition? Or rather as you put it, his ambition is not up to Oponunaldo's? A player has 5 ballon dors and he doesn't have Oponunaldo's ambition? Keeping in mind that Oponunaldo first beat him to it but he turned tables and won four in a row despite being 3/2 years younger?
What you people don't understand is that Oponunaldo is a media guru. He paints whatever he wants on social media. He's working out, flying in private jets, smacking booties,..he's football's alpha male! Messi doesn't give too much attention to carrying 25 litres of petrol to form hardworking. His hardwork is shown on the pitch!
As far as football is concerned, hardworking and talent should be measured in terms of performances...both individual, and team effort. If you tell me Oponunaldo is hardworking based on goals and bla bla, why is not Messi as equally hardworking? Considering the fact that even with stats, Messi still trumps Oponunaldo.
They are both hardworking players as far as I'm concerned, and I will always rate Messi above him. You don't have to agree
Well said.
What people always fail to understand or like to misconstrue is that when we say Messi is talented and Ronaldo is hardworking, it doesn't mean ronaldo is zero talent or messi is zero hardwork.
Everything between Messi and Ronaldo is relative.
On a scale of 100 i would rate them this way;
1. Hardwork Messi 40, Ronaldo 60.
2. Talent Messi 60, Ronaldo 40.
Something like that.
And because talent is in-built Messi always has that edge over Ronaldo.
Upnepaa: Top scorer in Madrid= Ronaldo Top scorer in Barça = Messi Top assister in Madrid = Toni kross Top assister in barca= Messi Playmaker in Madrid=modric Playmaker in Barça= Messi Top dribbler in Madrid= isco Top dribbler In Barça= Messi . But still some 21century facebook experts still compare Messi (most complete player) with Ronaldo (ordinary goal scorer). I even thought common sense is for free.. #FORCA_BARCA
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This has got to be a deathblow!
But trust madrid and ronaldo fan boys, They would ignore such stats and tell us;
1. How ronaldo has played in 3 different leagues. 2. How ronaldo can score with all parts of his human body.
� Asensio (Real Madrid): "Messi or Cristiano? They are the two best players in the world. It's very difficult to chose, but I have to say Cristiano since he's my teammate."
Of course that is one of the pre contract agreements to sign for real madrid.
1. Say real madrid is the best club in the world. 2. Say you've always wanted to play for madrid since you were a child. 3. You must say at every forum, interview and press conference, CRISTIANO RONALDO IS THE BEST IN THE WORLD.
homesteady: If Atletico Madrid win Europa Cup, would it increase La liga UCL quota to 5? Considering that they would qualify for UCL directly via their league position.
I doubt.
If athletico falls out of the top 5 then spain will have 5 slots.
But if athletico gain top 4, spain will still have 4 slots.
laliga01: Nigga, to you, you think you have made a point but you sound very stupid and illogical. How can you in your right senses think a group of terrorist took time to plan a kidnap and suddenly don't have capacity to keep them. Not every body has a dead brain like you. Do you know how long it takes to plan a kidnap?
I know how difficult it is to think outside the box
Even though the abduction remains highly highly controversial,
There is absolutely no conspiracy between the terrorist and the government, it defies logic!
The government couldn't have staged an abduction without staging a release battle. The government couldn't be so foolish! If it was stage managed the government would equally have set up/stage managed a very fierce battle for their release.
I think the terrorist just lack the capacity to keep and hold that number of girls nowadays. They are not as sophisticated as they used to be. They are always open to negotiations.
Those girls are their relatives too, they didn't harm the chibok girls so its no surprise they didn't harm these ones too.
I think there was an abduction and I do think a ransom was paid.
Some people will just ignore empirical stats and start debating on abstract and inconclusive things to compare players.
Only an eediot would ignore goals scored, assists made, individual awards, trophies and then begin to compare players based on stuff like 'proved himself in this and that league'
Esseite: Please dont be myopic and look at the bigger picture;
Re-ordering of the sequence is better for our democracy, a situation where an unknown party or body may vie for any slot as long as he has the backing of the people.
It would disperse presidential bangwagon effect on other elected offices.
Moreover it is morally just for whom has the most powers to come last as not to have an adulterated effect on the rest.
Don't be ridiculous. band wagon effect is a myth which is in the mind of people who refuse to think for themselves.
bandwagon effect indeed, then why didn't the APC win the entire senate and house because of bandwagon effect. Why didn't the voting pattern change in the country due to bandwagon effect? The North votes for the APC because their brother is Buhari. The south voted for pdp because their brother is Jonathan.
Oh you think the senators are doing this to deepen your democracy?
hehehehehehehe
How naive and foolish. They don't give a hoot about you.
They are only trying to secure their own re-election.
Last time he was aloof and refused to play politics as Saraki schemed himself to the senate presidency and is giving PMB all sorts of problems today.
PMB has realized his need to play he politics this time.
Elections in Nigeria have got nothing to do with performance. If PMB doesn't play this politics now and the order of elections is changed it might cause him problems.
And all those saying today 'if the president has performed well he shouldn't care about any order'
escodotman: I just don't know why Buhari is scared of having the presidential election coming last. If he's sure he has performed well like his loyalists claim daily, then it shouldn't matter the order which the election comes. Anyway, I knew this write-up is trash the moment it said 10 PDP have agreed to support Buhari's veto
people like you have never asked why the senators are afraid of maintaining the status quo they met in ground.
hypocrite!
If the senators served well would they be afraid of any order?
That's what happens when you don't allow a woman rock her teenage life before putting her in the bondage of marriage where she can access different diicks anymore.
All these running around and flexing is what she was denied in her 20's.