{"id":470325,"date":"2023-11-20T11:00:48","date_gmt":"2023-11-20T15:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=470325"},"modified":"2023-11-20T11:00:48","modified_gmt":"2023-11-20T15:00:48","slug":"los-blancos-bound-endrick-favors-ronaldo-over-messi","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/los-blancos-bound-endrick-favors-ronaldo-over-messi\/","title":{"rendered":"Los Blancos-bound Endrick favors Ronaldo over Messi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Real Madrid-bound teenager Endrick has claimed he is more of a Cristiano Ronaldo admirer than Lionel Messi ahead of his Brazil team&#8217;s World Cup qualifier vs. Argentina.<\/p>\n<p>Palmeiras forward Endrick (17) made his debut for his nation in a 2-1 loss against Colombia on Thursday and is expected to be on the pitch vs. Messi&#8217;s Argentina at the Maracana tomorrow.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\ud83c\udde7\ud83c\uddf7 Endrick: \u201cMy dream since I was a kid was to play for Real Madrid. Cristiano Ronaldo is my idol\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMessi is a phenomenal guy! But I&#8217;m more of a fan of Cristiano\u2026\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a great pride knowing that I\u2019ll wear the same shirt as Cristiano\u201d. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/pWBlcXreAj\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/pWBlcXreAj<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Fabrizio Romano (@FabrizioRomano) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FabrizioRomano\/status\/1726541231952638433?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">November 20, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Messi is a fantastic footballer, but I&#8217;m more of a supporter of Cristiano Ronaldo,&#8221; Endrick shared.<\/p>\n<p>The forward, who will join Cristiano\u2019s ex-team Real Madrid when he turns 18 next summer, is thrilled to play vs. the 8-time Ballon d&#8217;or winner.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Messi is a legend,&#8221; Endrick added. &#8220;He&#8217;s very good, among the best in the world again. I want to have fun and appreciate the moment of being able to face him, being in the same stadium as him, looking at him from a close range. I only saw Messi in video games. Now I&#8217;m seeing him up close; it will be fantastic.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Real Madrid-bound teenager Endrick has claimed he is more of a Cristiano Ronaldo admirer than Lionel Messi ahead of his Brazil team&#8217;s World [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":470326,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[22115,17969,17375],"news_category":[137,14235],"gn_keywords":[22116,508,327],"acf":{"announce":"The Brazilian wonderkid shared he prefers Cristiano over Leo.","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\/470325"}],"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\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=470325"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/470325\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":470329,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/470325\/revisions\/470329"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/470326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=470325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=470325"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=470325"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=470325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}