Leo Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo have kept a very intense pulse in the last years -nine of them coinciding in LaLiga- to be the best player of the world. The Portuguese forward, to base of work, has achieved to do him shadow to the Argentinian star and, even, equalise him in Balloons of Gold.
The Portuguese forward, now in the Juventus, has conceded an interview to France Football in which it has analysed this rivalry. "A lot of people said that we fed us the one to the another. That be the one in front of the another in Spain has allowed us be better, have better performances and this is definitely truth. In the Madrid felt more near his presence, what gave me a bit more than pressure that in the Manchester", said.
This yes, Cristiano Ronaldo wanted to leave clear that his motivation does not depend exclusively of Messi. "From a point of view, went a healthy rivalry, the symbol of the two clubs, the Madrid and the Barça. I think that it has said recently that it missed me in the competitive plane, but further of this my motivation does not depend on others. I want to be in the more high always", aimed.
The Portuguese, besides, surprised with some statements a so much odd. "If it depended on me, only it would play important parties. The ones of the national team and the Champions League. They are this type of meetings those that motivate me, those that have something at stake, in some difficult surroundings, with pressure. Afterwards, you have to be professional and be in shape every day to honour to your family and to the club that represent and pays you. It does lacking to give the best every day", said.
Also they asked after him how want to that they remember him in the world of the football. "Always it is pleasant when they speak of you of way halagadora. That they say that I have been the best, a fantastic player. Today I listen all what say of me. Afterwards, when all finish, at the end of my career, will not matter me because desconectaré of everything", answered.
The effectiveness of Cristiano
Besides, it spoke on his effectiveness of face to the goal, bigger in the second times. "I think so. This wants to say that I do not leave me at all, that go at the end of the 90 minutes. That no only I have the mind, but also the physicist to mark to the end of the party. But I admit that it surprises me have marked so much, although I know that, in general, frame more in the second half that in the first", concluded.