{"id":458386,"date":"2023-09-07T00:29:06","date_gmt":"2023-09-06T20:29:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=458386"},"modified":"2023-09-07T00:31:28","modified_gmt":"2023-09-06T20:31:28","slug":"cristiano-ronaldo-says-messi-rivalry-is-over","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/cristiano-ronaldo-says-messi-rivalry-is-over\/","title":{"rendered":"Cristiano Ronaldo says Messi rivalry is over"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cristiano Ronaldo thinks that the long-standing competition between him and Lionel Messi came to an end. Since this summer, both are no longer in Europe as the Argentine went to the MLS, wearing Inter Miami&#8217;s jersey, while the Portuguese has been in Saudi Arabia since the winter.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Messi and I changed the history of football. We shared the same stage for 15 years, our rivalry was good and the fans loved it, but it&#8217;s over now,&#8221; Ronaldo said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If you love Cristiano, you don&#8217;t need to hate Messi. I wouldn&#8217;t say we are friends, but we respect each other,&#8221; the Al-Nassr forward continued.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Ronaldo weighed in on the &#8216;rivalry&#8217; between Messi and himself ? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/OZ8HzZV5TI\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/OZ8HzZV5TI<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 ESPN FC (@ESPNFC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ESPNFC\/status\/1699468612375904767?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">September 6, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;At first, when I went there (Saudi Arabia), everyone said I was crazy. But now you see what is happening in Saudi Arabia. The championship there will overtake the Portuguese in strength and will become stronger and stronger. I am proud to have pioneered the development of the Saudi league and I want the league there to continue in the same way.&#8221;, Ronaldo added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cristiano Ronaldo thinks that the long-standing competition between him and Lionel Messi came to an end. Since this summer, both are no longer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":458392,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16904,17909],"news_category":[14235,16715],"gn_keywords":[17961,17910],"acf":{"announce":"\"We shared the same stage for 15 years and changed the history\", he said","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/458386"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/137"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=458386"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/458386\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":458394,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/458386\/revisions\/458394"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/458392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=458386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=458386"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=458386"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=458386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}